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Surveyors not ruled biased for seeking $42,600 in fines

May 01, 2012

A Jewish nursing home in Pennsylvania has been turned back in its attempt to have a penalty reviewed that it said resulted from a biased survey process.
 

Nursing home workers sue over insurance

May 01, 2012

Two former nursing home employees may be headed to trial over what they say is their previous employer's failure to pay into a group health plan.
 

Therapy lawsuit advances in federal court; debate persists

April 02, 2012

A former Aegis occupational therapy assistant can move forward with a lawsuit over what she says were fraudulent therapy claims.
 

AL court rules in favor of health insurer

April 02, 2012

Alabama's high court has ordered a nursing home's breach of contract suit against the state's largest health insurer to be dismissed.
 

Court affirms right of state to recover funds for LTC

March 01, 2012

Arizona has the right to recover a community spouse's annuity to pay for an institutionalized spouse's medical costs, a U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed.
 

Gay workers can fight for LTC insurance

March 01, 2012

Same-sex partners who want to participate in a state long-term care program can move forward with a federal lawsuit, a federal judge has said.
 

Sun reaches settlement over worker vacation payments

February 01, 2012

Sun Healthcare will pay more than $60,000 in a settlement over a failure to pay vacation wages to former employees, the Massachusetts Attorney General said in December.
 

Feds say hospice firm erred in enrollments

February 01, 2012

The federal government has joined a whistleblower complaint that alleges a major hospice company defrauded Medicare.
 

Florida's highest court rejects use of arbitration agreements

January 03, 2012

Nursing home arbitration agreements received another blow when the Florida Supreme Court ruled them invalid in two separate cases in November.
 

Nurses' union wins bargaining agreement

January 03, 2012

A federal appeals court agreed that an agreement between union nurses and a hospital should have been honored by new owners.
 
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