Tennessee Skilled Nursing Services Provider to Pay $9.5 Million for Alleged False Claims for Rehabilitation Therapy Services
A Tennessee healthcare provider has agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false…
Read More »Iowa Nursing Home Placed on CMS Special Focus Facilities List
An Iowa nursing home has been placed on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Special Focus Facilities list. Official records indicate that the facility has had a greater…
Read More »Pennsylvania State Police Arrest Two People Suspected of Stealing $15,000 from Nursing Home Resident
Two Pennsylvania residents of the same last name were recently arrested for stealing $15,000 from a woman in a nursing home. The pair’s scheme involved telling the victim that she…
Read More »Texas Man Suspected in Deaths of 14 Nursing Home Residents
A 47-year-old Texas man, charged with being a serial killer and indicted in the murder and robbery of 12 nursing home residents in northern Texas, was recently indicted for capital…
Read More »Former Oklahoma Nursing Home Employee Threatens to Blow up Facility
Local police recently arrested and booked a man after he threatened to blow up the nursing home where he had worked before being fired for assaulting another employee. According to…
Read More »Daughter of Nursing Home Resident on Life Support Accused of Attempted Murder
The daughter of a resident in a Michigan nursing home recently pleaded no contest in the Circuit Court to vulnerable adult abuse in the third degree. The woman was accused…
Read More »Woman Arrested for Posing as Registered Nurse in Ohio Nursing Home
A 30-year-old woman was recently arrested and accused of posing as a registered nurse in order to work in a nursing home. She appeared before a judge via video for…
Read More »Family Sues Connecticut Hospital and Two Physicians over Suicide Death of Patient
A wrongful death lawsuit seeking unspecified damages in excess of $15,000 was recently filed by the family of a patient who committed suicide on March 25, 2019, in a Connecticut…
Read More »Pennsylvania Nursing Home Chain Settles DOJ Allegations of Inappropriate Therapy for $15.5 Million
A US Attorney recently announced that a Pennsylvania nursing home chain will pay $15,466,278 to settle Department of Justice (DOJ) claims that it provided medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy to residents…
Read More »Mexican Citizen Sentenced to 26 Months for Misuse of a Social Security Number and Aggravated Identity Theft
A 69-year-old man from Mexico recently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served (26 months) after being arrested in 2017 and indicted for illegal re-entry and identity theft. He…
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