Judge finds evidence is worthless in massive False Claims suit alleging worthless nursing home services
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 13, 2024
A federal judge this week tossed a nearly decade-old False Claims case that targeted what was once the nation’s largest nursing home chain, writing that the lawsuit was grossly short on evidence.
Court orders attorney to pay nursing home legal fees in ‘frivolous’ False Claims case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 07, 2024
An attorney who brought a False Claims case against a Mississippi long-term care provider using publicly available — and later disproven — information must pay the facility’s legal fees, a court...
Health system that spent nursing home pay on its other businesses cleared in False Claims lawsuit
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 19, 2023
A New York healthcare system that invested nursing home reimbursements in other parts of its business is not subject to False Claims Act litigation, a federal court has ruled.
When False Claims cases ring … false
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 21, 2023
To much of the rooting US public, the False Claims Act is a heroic piece of legislation that guards the “little guy” against big, bad corporations.
NY nursing home landlord, former operators to pay $7.2M in False Claims settlement
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2023
The landlord of an upstate New York nursing home and the unlicensed operators who ran the facility for years before its 2021 closure have agreed to pay nearly $7.2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations.
NJ firm encouraged nursing home staff to make bogus hospice referrals: lawsuit
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 05, 2023
A New Jersey company pressured nursing home staff to refer ineligible patients to hospice care, exaggerating their conditions and defrauding the government in the process, a federal whistleblower lawsuit...
Illinois SNF operator vindicated as whistleblower suit falls short
By
John Hall
Aug 23, 2022
Heritage Operations Group has been vindicated in a whistleblower claim filed by a former Omnicare pharmacist who alleged the Illinois-based nursing home operator violated the False Claims Act by improperly...
Federal enforcement settlements with providers doubled as courts reopened
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 11, 2022
The federal government won $5 billion in healthcare fraud judgments last fiscal year, a staggering increase after a COVID lull.
‘Grossly substandard’ care leads to False Claims charges for Ohio-based nursing home operator
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 16, 2022
The Justice Department late Wednesday announced it has sued three connected nursing homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania, citing their “grossly substandard skilled nursing services.”
Government backs off another HCR ManorCare case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 12, 2018
The Department of Justice has declined to intervene in a massive, seven-year-old False Claims Act case against HCR ManorCare, newly unsealed court documents show.