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Feds Detail Hospice And Home Health Agencies $150 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

May 20, 2021

A Texas man was sentenced on April 21, 2021 to 27 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy at the Merida Group, a chain of hospice and home health agencies throughout Texas, to falsely convince thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less than six months to live in orde[...]

Study Finds Delay In Treating Ischemic Stroke Causes Loss Of 2.2 Hours Of Healthy Life For Every One Second Of Delay

May 15, 2021

A study published in JAMA Neurology on May 3, 2021 entitled, “Healthy Life-Year Costs of Treatment Speed From Arrival to Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients With Ischemic Stroke A Meta-analysis of Individual Patient Data From 7 Randomized Clinical Trials” concluded: “In this stud[...]

Arizona Governor Signs Into Law Abortion Restrictions For Genetic Abnormalities

May 12, 2021

On April 27, 2021, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 1457, which makes it a Class 6 felony to perform an abortion solely because of a genetic abnormality, use force or threat to intimidate a person to have an abortion because of a genetic abnormality of the child, or accep[...]

Kentucky Nursing Home’s Experience With COVID-19 After Vaccinations

May 8, 2021

A study released on April 21, 2021 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) entitled “COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, March 2021” reported: “In a COVID-[...]

New Book Sheds Light On Failed Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

May 2, 2021

The Cato Institute released a new book on April 29, 2021 entitled “Medical Malpractice Litigation How It Works — Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped” that “compiles decades of real‐world data to shatter persistent myths that surround the debate over “med mal” reform.”[...]

GAO Report: Nursing Home Infection Control Deficiencies “Widespread And Persistent” Before COVID-19

April 28, 2021

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) reported: “Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that most nursing homes were cited for infection prevention and control deficiencies (82% of those surveyed from 2013-2017). About half of these homes had persistent problems and w[...]

Post-Acute COVID-19

April 25, 2021

An article appearing in Nature on April 22, 2021 that was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication, entitled “High-dimensional characterization of post-acute sequalae of COVID-19” stated: “We show that beyond the first 30 days of illness, people with COVID-19 exhibit higher risk [...]

Only Half Of Nursing Home Staff In Pennsylvania Have Been Vaccinated For COVID-19

April 20, 2021

On March 16, 2021, the Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued an Order requiring skilled nursing care facilities (nursing homes) to complete the COVID-19 vaccine needs assessment survey. The results of the initial survey show that as of April 1, 2021, the statewide average [...]

Leading Causes Of Death In The United States For 2020

April 14, 2021

An article appearing online on March 31, 2021 on the JAMA Network analyzed recent vital statistics data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and reported: “Provisional estimates indicate a 17.7% increase in the number of deaths in 2020 ([...]

Nursing Homes Experienced 96% Reduction In COVID-19 Cases Since Vaccines Became Available

April 11, 2021

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and long term care facilities in the United States that provide care to approximately five million people each year, released a report on March 30, 2021 that found th[...]

CEO Of Nursing Home Conglomerate Received $5.2M Retention Bonus Just Before Retiring During COVID-19 Pandemic

March 3, 2021

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter to Robert Fish, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Genesis Healthcare, Inc., dated January 27, 2021, expressing her outrage “about the inexplicable and unseemly decision by Genesis Healthcare, Inc. (Genesis) and its board to approve an[...]

CDC Study: Five Nursing Home Residents Reinfected With COVID-19 Had More Serious Symptoms

February 27, 2021

A CDC study published on February 26, 2021 entitled, “Suspected Recurrent SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Residents of a Skilled Nursing Facility During a Second COVID-19 Outbreak — Kentucky, July–November 2020” stated: “Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronaviru[...]

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