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U.S. Department Of Justice Undertakes Nationwide Coordinated Law Enforcement Action To Combat COVID-19 Health Care Fraud

June 5, 2023

Coordinated Law Enforcement Action To Combat COVID-19 Health Care Fraud: On April 20, 2023, the United States Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 18 defendants in nine federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving h[...]

Federal Appellate Court Sends Medical Malpractice Case Back To State Court

April 26, 2023

Appellate Court Sends Malpractice Case Back To State Court: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its March 7, 2023 decision: “Plaintiff Zachary Solomon sued Defendants St. Joseph Hospital and Catholic Health System of Long [...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Florida Nursing Home Pays $1.75M To Settle False Claims Act Allegations Concerning COVID-19 Vaccinations Provided To Ineligible Donors And Prospective Donors

September 26, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on June 30, 2022 that MorseLife Health System Inc. (MorseLife) agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve its potential liability under the False Claims Act for facilitating COVID-19 vaccinations for hundreds of individuals ineligible to participate in t[...]

CMS Study Reports On Disparate Effects Of COVID-19 On Nursing Home Residents

September 20, 2021

The recent CMS report entitled “The Impact of COVID-19 on Medicare Beneficiaries in Nursing” stated: “Nursing home residents account for about 2% of the Medicare population, but about 22% of all COVID-19 cases. Nursing home residents were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with C[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

New York Pharmacies Owners Charged With $30M COVID-19 Health Care Fraud

January 7, 2021

On December 21, 2020, two owners of more than twelve New York pharmacies were charged in an indictment for their roles in a $30 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme, in which they exploited emergency codes and edits in the Medicare system that went into effect due to the COVID-19 pa[...]

Superspreader Wedding In Washington Tied To At Least 7 Nursing Home Resident COVID-19 Deaths

December 28, 2020

A wedding in Washington State that was attended by more than 300 guests, including staff from three nursing homes (McKay Healthcare & Rehab Center in Soap Lake, Lake Ridge Center in Moses Lake, and Columbia Crest Center in Moses Lake) has been identified as a superspreader event, leading to at l[...]

Georgia Man Charged With Attempting To Scam Veterans Administration For Respirator Masks

June 1, 2020

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on April 10, 2020 that a 39-year-old Georgia man was arrested and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia on April 10, 2020 with fraud for attempting to sell millions of nonexistent respirator masks to the Department of Veterans Affairs in exchan[...]

Crisis Standards Of Care (CSC) For COVID-19

April 15, 2020

On March 28, 2020, the “Rapid Expert Consultation on Crisis Standards of Care for the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 28, 2020) (2020)” was issued: “the aim of this rapid expert consultation is to articulate the guiding principles, key elements, and core messages that undergird Crisis Sta[...]

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