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UnitedHealthcare Responds To Article Claiming Payments Made To Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 25, 2025

UnitedHealthcare’s Response To May 21, 2025 Article Appearing In The Guardian [see yesterday’s Blog article]: Statement from UnitedHealthcare “The U.S. Department of Justice investigated these allegations, interviewed witnesses, and obtained thousands of documents that demonstrated[...]

Residents Of Bankrupt Nursing Homes More Likely To Suffer Physical Restraints And Bedsores

July 18, 2025

Nursing homes are a $200 billion industry in the U.S. There are more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States that employ about 1.4 million staff and provide services to more than 1.3 million residents daily. Total debt in the U.S. healthcare sector doubled between 2019 and 2024. Moody’s rat[...]

Private Equity Nursing Homes

June 20, 2025

A report from April 2025 entitled Private Equity is Continuing to Acquire – and Bankrupt – Nursing Homes found: If you or a loved one suffered injuries (or worse) while a resident of a nursing home in the United States due to nursing home neglect, nursing home negligence, nursing home ab[...]

New OIG Report On Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Programs Failures

May 10, 2025

In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took steps to bolster nursing home emergency preparedness and response through enhanced Requirements for Participation (RfPs). Nursing homes must meet these RfPs to begin or continue participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. [...]

Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths

December 31, 2024

The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]

$35.8M Awarded In Back Wages After Investigation Found Nursing Homes Wage Theft

October 2, 2024

The U. S. Department of Labor announced on July 30, 2024 that a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facil[...]

Long Term Care Community Coalition’s June 21, 2024 Report Findings

September 16, 2024

Of the 14,858 nursing homes in the United States, 3,660 are problem facilities (Special Focus Facilities , SFF candidates (nursing homes determined by CMS to have a history of serious quality issues or are included in a special program to stimulate improvements in their quality of care), One-St[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Holds Nursing Home Was Entitled To COVID Immunity

September 2, 2024

Selva Campbell, a stroke patient, was admitted to defendant Woodcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center in Bergen County on March 23, 2020, coming under the care of defendant Birinder Kaur, M.D. less than two weeks after theWorld Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a globa[...]

OIG Report On Nursing Homes Failing To Comply With Federal Regulations Regarding Facility-Initiated Discharges Of Residents

June 15, 2024

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on March 29, 2024 entitled “Concerns Remain About Safeguards To Protect Residents During Facility-Initiated Discharges From Nursing Homes” that found that in 107 of the 126 facility-ini[...]

New York Sues Owners/Operators Of Four Nursing Homes For Financial Fraud/Resident Neglect

November 7, 2023

The New York Attorney General announced on June 28, 2023 a lawsuit filed against the owners, operators, and landlords of four nursing homes. The lawsuit alleges years of repeated and persistent fraud and illegally misusing more than $83 million in taxpayer money that resulted in significant resident[...]

Nursing Home Staffing Crisis In The United States

October 31, 2023

The American Health Care Association surveyed 524 nursing home providers in the United States between December 7 and December 16, 2022, and stated in its January 2023 report: The vast majority of nursing homes are experiencing staffing shortages and difficulties in hiring additional staff. Providers[...]

New York Enacts Nursing Home Law To Protect Nursing Home Residents From Infection And Keep Loved Ones Informed

March 30, 2023

New York Enacts Nursing Home Law: On December 7, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that will require residential health care facilities to swiftly update residents as well as their family members and guardians when an infection is detected within the facility. It also requires [...]

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