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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[...]

Former Arkansas Nursing Home Owner Arrested For Stealing Over $43K From Residents’ Trust Fund Accounts

September 9, 2020

The Arkansas Attorney General announced on July 27, 2020 the arrest of Keith Alan Head (“Head”), the former owner of Prescott Manor Nursing Center in Prescott, Arkansas, by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Head is accused of emptying or severely depleting residents�[...]

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Chain Agrees To Pay Nearly $15.5M To Settle False Claims Allegations

April 19, 2020

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Pennsylvania announced on February 19, 2020 that Guardian Elder Care Holdings, Inc., which operates more than 50 nursing homes throughout Pennsylvania, and its related companies, will pay $15,466,278 to settle claims that it provided medically unneces[...]

Medicare Paid $84M During Two Year Period For Ineligible Nursing Home Stays

March 2, 2019

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a report in February 2019 entitled CMS Improperly Paid Millions Of Dollars For Skilled Nursing Facility Services When The Medicare 3-Day Inpatient Hopsital Stay Requirement Was Not Met that found: “CMS improperly pa[...]

Maryland Attorney General Announces Settlement Of Nursing Home Resident Dumping Lawsuit

November 5, 2018

The Maryland Attorney General announced on October 26, 2018 the settlement of a Maryland lawsuit filed against the former operator of five Maryland nursing homes and its owner in which the defendants agreed to be permanently precluded from engaging directly or indirectly in the management or operati[...]

Signature Healthcare Agrees To Pay More Than $30M To Resolve False Claims Allegations

August 6, 2018

On June 11, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee announced that Signature HealthCARE, LLC (“Signature”) has agreed to pay more than $30 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitt[...]

Nebraska Supreme Court Affirms Trial Court’s Refusal To Compel Arbitration Of Nursing Home Claim

July 11, 2018

The Nebraska Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on June 15, 2018 that: (1) in the absence of a contractual provision evidencing clear and unmistakable intent to the contrary, the issue of whether an arbitration agreement is enforceable is for a court to decide and not an arbitrator, and (2) the[...]

California Doctor Strikes Back At Nursing Home

January 1, 2018

A California doctor filed a lawsuit against a California nursing home and its employees on December 19, 2017, alleging that they falsified his physician orders and falsified the nursing home medical records for a 67-year-old nursing home resident who died as a result of alleged nursing home negligen[...]

$5M Paid To U.S. By Texas Nursing Home For Alleged Worthless Nursing Home Services

November 24, 2017

The U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas, announced on October 19, 2017 that Health Services Management Inc. (“HSM”) has paid the United States and the State of Texas $5 million to resolve claims that it billed the Medicare and Medicaid program[...]

$145M To Be Paid By Huge Nursing Home Corporation To Settle False Claims Allegations

November 4, 2016

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 24, 2016 that a Tennessee-based corporation that owns and operates more than 220 nursing homes (skilled nursing facilities) throughout the United States, and it owner, have agreed to pay $145 million to settle the government’s claims that the[...]

California Nursing Home Chain Agrees To Pay $28.5M To Settle False Claims Allegations

September 28, 2016

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on September 19, 2016 that a California-based, for-profit operator of 35 skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes), most of which are in California, has agreed to pay the government $28.5 million in order to settle allegations that it violated the federal [...]

California Nursing Home Whistleblower Lawsuit Settled For $3.5M

September 18, 2016

On September 9, 2016, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced that on August 3, 2016, a Los Angeles nursing home and two physicians who worked at the California nursing home paid $3,563,140 to resolve civil allegations contained in a federal whistleblower l[...]

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