Colorado nursing home group enters first-in-nation alliance with OSHA
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Mar 28, 2023
A first-of-its-kind alliance between a Colorado nursing home advocacy group and a federal safety agency will educate workers about common hazards in their field, as well as whistleblower protections.
Whistleblowers add to nursing home COVID relief burdens
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 31, 2022
A $105 million federal lawsuit filed last week — one possibly on its way to a quick dismissal — shows the growing threats nursing home operators face in accounting for their right to collect and spend...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Aug. 22
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 22, 2022
Whistleblowers claim they were fired for outing deadly nursing home COVID outbreak … Kentucky to offer PACE program to nursing home-eligible adults … FDA approves Axsome’s rapid-acting depression...
Whistleblowers claim they were fired for outing one of nation’s deadliest nursing home COVID outbreaks
By
John Hall
Aug 19, 2022
Two high-level state employees brought on to manage a pair of controversial state-run veterans’ homes in the early days of the pandemic filed a whistleblower lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts.
Whistleblowers driving COVID-19 lawsuits, but that’s not all bad news
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 23, 2021
Whistleblower complaints are the main type of lawsuit against healthcare providers so far this year, but anxious operators don’t necessarily have to worry.
Court reinstates part of $348M verdict against provider in whistleblower case
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 30, 2020
A portion of a $347.9 million verdict against a nursing home provider was reinstated late last week by a federal appeals court in an ongoing False Claims Act case.
Four skilled nursing facilities and two financial consultants they used to bill for therapy services agreed last week to a $6 million settlement to resolve fraud allegations.
Hospice accused of treating ineligible patients agrees to $1.2M False Claims settlement
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2018
A for-profit hospice company and its owner agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that the company fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid for hospice services.
CNA sues for firing after she reported resident’s claims
By
Amy Novotney
Jan 08, 2018
A former certified nursing assistant at an Illinois continuing care retirement community is suing her ex-employer for more than $75,000 and reinstatement of her job, alleging that she was fired for reporting...
False Claims Act liability for poor quality of care
By
Jason R. Edgecombe and Ted Lotchin
Sep 14, 2015
Not surprisingly, different federal courts have staked out different positions on the standard for liability under a worthless services complaint.