Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he is “aggressively prosecuting” cases against the former owner and nine former managers or employees of a now-closed assisted living facility who have been charged with a total of 76 counts.
North Dakota has become the final state to have a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The entities investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and resident / patient abuse and neglect in assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities and other healthcare facilities.
A plan that would make Tennessee the first state to receive its Medicaid funding via a block grant “must be carefully evaluated,” the executive director of the Tennessee Health Care Association / Tennessee Center for Assisted Living told McKnight’s Senior Living on Wednesday.
Janet Yellen hit on numerous topics Thursday in the opening session of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference.
Former Florida assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner Philip Esformes has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a case that the federal government continues to describe as “the largest healthcare fraud scheme charged by the U.S. Justice Department.”
Under a final rule issued Thursday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can deny or revoke Medicaid and Medicare program enrollment from providers and suppliers if an owner or manager is directly or indirectly affiliated with an organization that previously had its enrollment revoked.
Sept. 13 is the deadline Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Bob Casey (D-PA) on Friday gave to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma and the directors of the eight external quality review organizations that audit Medicaid managed care organizations to answer questions about access and quality of states’ long-term services and supports programs.
Assisted living providers who serve Medicaid beneficiaries will be the focus of a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General in fiscal year 2020, the office said Thursday.
A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General references personal care services and personal care services attendants, long-term care employee background checks and assisted living hospice care.
Kentucky put at risk the health and safety of some older and disabled adults receiving home- and community-based services through section 1915(c) Medicaid waivers because its annual inspections were “insufficient,” according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Human and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
