Pandemic-induced uptick in financial exploitation here to stay: AARP
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 06, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created a shift in the financial industry that made older adults increasingly vulnerable to financial exploitation, according to a new report from AARP.
More news for Tuesday, Sept. 13
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 13, 2022
Senate Aging Committee members seek information on alleged Alzheimer’s research fraud … 14 state governors launch healthcare workforce collaborative … CMS: Free updated COVID-19 vaccines provide...
Provider ‘strongly denies’ fraudulent use of federal COVID-19 vaccination program for ineligible...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 05, 2022
A Florida senior living and care provider “strongly denies” allegations that it used a federal COVID-19 vaccination clinic to inoculate hundreds of ineligible donors, saying it settled with the federal...
Federal crackdown uncovers $149 million in healthcare-related COVID-19 fraud
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 21, 2022
The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced criminal charges against 21 companies in nine federal districts for an alleged $149 million in pandemic-related healthcare fraud schemes.
Older adults lost $100 million to COVID-related fraud in 2020: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 24, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic gave scammers an opportunity to use new tactics to defraud older adults, including illegal robocalls, texts and emails, and social media posts.
Lawmaker pressures CMS on status of national quality measures for HCBS
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 13, 2021
The ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging is turning up the heat on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking the agency’s chief to describe its efforts to establish quality...
More news for Thursday, June 17
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 17, 2021
Marketing firms fined $192 million for perpetrating elder fraud schemes … Massachusetts life plan community offers dementia communication training to first responders … Most of Georgia senior living...
Justice Department touts aggressive enforcement against pandemic relief fraud
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 29, 2021
As thousands of long-term care operators and other businesses fought to retain employees and stay afloat over the past year, hundreds of others were working to defraud relief programs to the tune of $569...
Man used senior living residents’ identities in $1.5 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, DOJ says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 25, 2021
A Florida man is facing the potential of more than 30 years in prison after being indicted for COVID-19 relief fraud for allegedly using the identities of senior living residents to obtain more than $1.5...
Big senior living stories of 2020
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2020
A year ago, nobody in the U.S. senior living industry would have predicted that a pandemic would upend everyone’s personal and professional lives in 2020. But COVID-19 undoubtedly was the story of the...