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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Action Preserves Beneficiary Access to High Quality Nursing Home Care;
Helps Preserve, Strengthen Intra-Facility Staffing Efforts
JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing the substantial
benefit in protecting the nation's critical frontline-caregiver
infrastructure, the Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) today thanked
Senator John Sununu for helping to lead a successful, bipartisan...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Action Preserves Beneficiary Access to High Quality Nursing Home Care;
Helps Preserve, Strengthen Intra-Facility Staffing Efforts
JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing the substantial
benefit in protecting the nation's critical frontline-caregiver
infrastructure, the Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) today thanked
Senator Mitch McConnell for helping to lead a successful, bipartisan...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Action Preserves Beneficiary Access to High Quality Nursing Home Care;
Helps Preserve, Strengthen Intra-Facility Staffing Efforts
JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing the substantial
benefit in protecting the nation's critical frontline-caregiver
infrastructure, the Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) today thanked
Senator Roger Wicker for helping to lead a successful, bipartisan...
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Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
"They should die and decrease the surplus population." Ever since the right-wing began to insist that medical care was a business, and one that could make a HUGE profit if liberal busybodies would just stop talking foolishly about hyping "non-profit" insurance plans, HMO's - as we all know - have moved from patient-care centers to profit-care centers. Except that with insurance companies dumping millions...
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Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Beginning of the End of Medicare was when Congress passed the rules which require physician fees to follow a Sustainable Growth Rate or SGR , followed by the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA , which added the prescription drug plan but prevents Medicare from negotiating lower rates from Big Pharma. The problem with the SGR is that its calculation is fatally flawed, requiring increasing annual...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchstone Health HMO, Inc. and
OptumHealth announced today an agreement that will provide Touchstone
Health members with access to the country's top transplant facilities with
specialized support for patients and their families. OptumHealth's
customized Medicare Transplant Solutions eases the transplant process by
assigning case managers who will work with Touchstone...
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GoozNews (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The news section of the New England Journal of Medicine is usually a couple of weeks behind the news, but today's edition has a few comments worth noting. First, former Health Affairs editor turned NEJM national correspondent John Iglehart in...
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Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
FBI agents served search warrants Wednesday morning on three California hospitals as part of an investigation into alleged Medicare fraud involving homeless patients who were recruited from skid row. Dr. Rudra Sabaratnam, an owner and the chief executive of City of Angels Medical Center, and Estill Mitts, an alleged patient recruiter, were indicted by a federal grand jury last week on 21 counts of...
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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Federal agents raided three medical centers on Wednesday and arrested a top hospital executive as part of a federal health care fraud investigation. FBI agents arrested the CEO of City of Angels hospital, Rudra Sabaratnam, and the operator of a Skid Row health assessment center, Estill Mitts. Both men are accused of recruiting homeless people as patients and then illegally charging Medicare and Medi-Cal...
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the 13th juror (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Three Southern California hospitals are accused of paying recruiters thousands of dollars a month to find homeless people on Skid Row, give them fake diagnoses and send them to the hospital. The hospitals then allegedly billed Medicare or Medi-Cal (California’s version of Medicaid) for treatment of the patients’ nonexistent conditions. After a two-year investigation, officials from the FBI and other...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Skid row homeless were allegedly used to fill empty beds and boost revenue. A federal grand jury has indicted 2 figures in the case, and L.A. City Atty. Delgadillo announces civil litigation. FBI agents served search warrants this morning on three hospitals as part of an investigation into alleged Medicare fraud involving homeless patients who were recruited from skid row.
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The investigation centers on alleged fraud involving homeless patients recruited from skid row. L.A. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo plans to announce civil litigation against the hospitals' operators. FBI agents served search warrants this morning on three hospitals as part of an investigation into alleged Medicare fraud involving homeless patients who were recruited from skid row.
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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
A recent vote by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and “her health care enforcers” to “deactivate a warning that entitlement spending is running amok” indicates that Congress does not plan to address the long-term financial problems of Medicare, a Wall Street Journal editorial states (Wall Street Journal, 8/2). The House recently approved a resolution that [...]
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LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The investigation centers on alleged fraud involving homeless patients recruited from skid row. L.A. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo plans to announce civil litigation against the hospitals' operators. FBI agents served search warrants this morning on three hospitals as part of an investigation into alleged Medicare fraud involving homeless patients who were recruited from skid row.
