Medicare False Claims Whistleblower To Receive $15M
May 1, 2014
An Alabama nurse will receive $15 million as her share of the settlement proceeds from a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit she filed against her former employer, a Louisiana-based home healthcare company that operates in 37 U.S. states. Her former employer has agreed to pay $150 million to [...]
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Stethoscope Contamination: What You Don’t See Can Hurt You
April 28, 2014
Studies have shown that most physicians and nurses do not disinfect their stethoscopes frequently – 70% to 90% of physicians do not disinfect their stethoscopes after each patient contact. The parts of the stethoscope most likely to come in contact with patients (i.e., the diaphragm and the b[...]
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$14M Yasmin Jury Verdict
April 27, 2014
On April 18, 2014, after a two-week trial, a Cook County, Illinois Circuit Court medical malpractice jury awarded $14 million to a woman who suffered a serious stroke thirteen days after she began taking the birth control medication Yasmin. The 37-year-old woman lost the use of the left side of h[...]
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Cost Of Long Term Care In The United States In 2014
April 26, 2014
A recently published survey of the cost of long term care in the United States in 2014 reported that the cost of long term care has steadily increased over the last eleven years but that the cost of long term care provided at home has grown at a lesser rate than the cost of long term care provid[...]
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The 5 Most Common Preventable Nursing Home Adverse Events
April 22, 2014
According to the February 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” five physicians were contracted to review th[...]
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