I ran across a sad but interesting article discussing the difficulties in choosing the right nursing home for a loved one. The author was looking for the right place for his wife who suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease. He used the federal database (the Nursing Home Compare Database) that is supposed to help in choosing a nursing home
The former owner of several nursing homes has been sentenced to 42 months of imprisonment after being convicted of health care fraud and money laundering. Rocky Lemon pled guilty on both charges. In addition to the prison term the owner must serve three years of supervised release after completing his imprisonment and pay more than $4
TENNESSEE-BASED NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORPORATION SETTLES MEDICARE FRAUD CASE FOR $27 MILLION WASHINGTON, DC – National Healthcare Corporation (NHC) will pay the United States $27 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company submitted falsely inflated reports to Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The government alleged that beginning in 1991 the
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