Senior living and care organizations can keep their residents safe from elder abuse and fraud and maintain good standing by taking these precautions.
This gift helps residents and staff avoid scams
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 20, 2021
At a time of year when many of us are purchasing gift cards to enable loved ones to buy something of their choosing, data from the Federal Trade Commission reveal that, increasingly, criminals are separating...
Senior living operators, the ball’s in your court
By
John O'Connor
Sep 17, 2020
It’s a bit troubling to watch bad moves made by skilled care operators repeated in senior living. Yet it continues to happen.
$1.8 million healthcare scam defrauded senior living residents, Justice Department says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 01, 2020
An Omaha, NE, man was sentenced to 46 months in prison for using the personal information of senior living residents in several states to defraud Medicare and state Medicaid agencies out of thousands of...
New manual highlights ways senior living employees can protect residents from financial exploitation
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 01, 2020
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a manual Tuesday specifically designed to help assisted living community and nursing home managers spot the signs of financial abuse and protect...
Older adults lose $835 million in 2019 internet scams, FBI says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 28, 2020
More than 68,000 adults over age 60 lost a total of more than $835 million in 2019 in internet scams, according to the FBI. The amount represents a substantial increase over the $649 million loss reported...
Coronavirus pandemic fuels robocall scams
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 27, 2020
Americans are tired of robocalls. And with stay-at-home orders around the country, more of us are encountering an unwanted robocall when we answer our phones, according to a survey by Provision Senior...
FTC warns that assisted living communities cannot take residents’ stimulus checks
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 18, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission is telling consumers to report assisted living communities and nursing homes to the federal government and to state attorneys general if facilities wrongly say they are entitled...
Medicaid fraud discovered because of murder pushes nationwide assisted living monetary recoveries to...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2020
Efforts by state Medicaid Fraud Control Units resulted in a total of 23 criminal convictions and more than $2.2 million in criminal monetary recoveries related to assisted living in fiscal year 2019, according...
President’s clemency order in $205 million case sends message that assisted living fraud is OK, former...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 19, 2020
President Trump’s commutation of the 35-year prison sentence of a woman convicted of orchestrating a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme that involved assisted living facility owners and operators “may...