By Steve Kardell | Published December 27, 2022 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: false Medicare claims, Medicare Fraud, nursing home |
American Senior Communities LLC, or ASC, violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare. The organization recently agreed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pay just under $6 million to settle the claims. Proceeds reimbursed Medicare and awarded the whistleblower who brought the claim. The Medicare scheme ASC provides skilled nursing Read More
Read MoreIn a September article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a whistleblower alleges executives of St. Therese of New Hope nursing home instructed staff to ignore protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The whistleblower was Brooke Peoples, who previously worked as an administrator at the facility in New Hope, Minnesota. She claims the instructions came from Read More
Read MoreAn anonymous whistleblower in Brooklyn called attention this spring to some of the dire conditions at nursing homes in New York City. The whistleblower spoke with voice distortion and appeared in silhouette on a teleconference call to speak about her experiences with a nursing home during the pandemic. She was nervous about speaking out publicly, Read More
Read MoreA federal judge in Florida has issued a stay on more than $350 million in False Claims Act judgments in fear that the nursing homes ordered to pay them could suddenly shut down as a result. In his action, the U.S. district judge prohibited enforcement agencies from collecting on the judgments as the nursing home Read More
Read MoreFor the past six years, the Ohio-based nursing home chain HCR ManorCare has been embroiled in a whistleblower lawsuit featuring allegations that the company systematically overbilled Medicare and often put its residents through overly rigorous rehabilitation schedules in efforts to increase revenue. Now the U.S. Department of Justice is stepping in, which means an end Read More
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