Category: Healthcare Industry

Why Protecting Whistleblowers Pays Dividends ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER At a time when businesses and governments seem more eager than ever to cover up their wrongdoings, it’s worth asking what benefit there is in strong whistleblower protections. The benefit to the whistleblower is obvious: these protections enable them to act on their […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What does it say about the California nursing home industry that they’re rewarding employees with raffle tickets for an iPod if they flood California Medicare & Medicaid Services with comments? Nothing good, certainly. This petty tactic is being deployed by lobbyists for the nursing home industry to try […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Attorney General filed charges of elder abuse alleging that Verdugo Valley Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre LLC, based in Montrose, California, failed to provide the necessary care to a resident who suffered from burns, resulting in his death. The criminal charges indicate that James Populus, who had […]

Ensuring Good Care Plan in Nursing Homes for Your Loved Ones ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing home residents and their families have the right to participate in the development of the resident’s care plan. Individualized care plans are extremely important to ensure that nursing home residents receive proper care. The resident or […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Thanks to whistleblower George Karadsheh, a doctor who was improperly giving patients chemotherapy was stopped. Dr. Farid Fata, a Michigan doctor, was recently sentenced to 45 years in jail. According to prosecutors, Fata mistreated over 500 patients. In some cases, he was administering chemotherapy to people who did […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca and Teva Pharmaceutical’s Cephalon unit, have settled with the government after facing claims about rebates underpayment to Medicaid programs. The two companies have agreed to pay over 50 million dollars as a result of the Medicaid fraud allegations. This is one of the latest […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Humboldt County’s skilled nursing facilities have been closing their doors to patients. Many patients have had to leave the county to find another facilities. The organization that owns most of the skilled nursing facilities in the area announced that it will no longer accept patients from St. Joseph’s […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER This year is the 50th anniversary of the Medicare program, and caregivers often find navigating Medicare and Medicaid to be one of the most difficult parts of managing a loved one’s finances and healthcare. San Francisco elder abuse attorneys emphasize that caregivers should know the basics and major […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently unveiled major new protections for nursing home residents. This 400-page proposed rule is the first comprehensive update of nursing home regulations since 1991, during which time the Medicare nursing home population has nearly tripled to 1.8 million people. The proposed […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Department of Justice announced that a Medicare fraud case against AseraCare hospice facilities will start August 3, after a half-dozen employees filed whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act. The company could owe up to $202 million. The whistleblowers, and the Department of Justice, which elected to […]