Insurance Companies May Have Financial Reasons to Dump Patients on Hospice There is a recent trend developing in hospice care for those covered under the Medicare Advantage Plans. For those unfamiliar with Medicare Advantage plans, they are plans where Medicare-eligible persons receive coverage from private health insurance through Medicare. They generally have lower premiums than Medicare Supplement plans (also known…
$750 Million For Medicare Reimbursements To Nursing Homes The long term care industry (nursing home industry) is high fiving each other because they successfully negotiated another $750 Million pay increase in 2015 from Medicare. This is the same industry that in the...
Bill AB1572 Strengthens The Rights Of Residential Care Facility Residents AB1572 was just signed into law by Governor Brown. AB1572 strengthens the rights of RCFE residents and their families to form resident and family councils. Resident and family councils are a...
The U.S. Government Releases Startling Statistics About Elder Abuse U.S. Government Releases Startling Statistics About Elder Abuse - The U.S. Government recently published the Elder Justice Road Map Project in response to emerging health, financial, and social...
In the latest nursing home death case, the Attorney General’s Office and the State Department of Health are investigating the death of a 71 year old woman in the ventilator unit at Medford Nursing Home where employees are already facing criminal charges in the death...
Ensign Group, a parent company that owns skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation care facilities, home healthcare, hospice and assisted living facilities throughout California and other states, announced that it has agreed to purchase Keiro Senior Health Care’s...
Drugs and Medication Errors – An Epidemic Problem in Nursing Homes Recent news out of Florida cited to the fact that in the past three years, 43% of nursing homes have been cited for deficiencies directly or indirectly related to medication errors according to the...
Whistleblower Appreciation Day In honor of National Whistleblower Appreciation Day (July 30th), we want to highlight the legislative safeguards and protections for patients, healthcare workers, nurses, members of medical staff make a complaint of suspected unsafe...
Nursing Home Blocks Sexual Assault Investigation Nursing Home Blocks Sexual Assault Investigation - A Volusia County nursing home located in Tallahassee, Florida is now blocking local law enforcement officials from investigating an alleged rape of one of its elderly...
The class-action suit settlement representing California UPS workers that led the Consumer Attorneys of California to name Wendy York a Finalist for 2007 Consumer Attorney of the Year Award. Transcript INTERVIEW ABOUT THE UPS WAGE AND HOUR CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT OF...