Grand Rapids, MI - The United States of America sued Encore Rehabilitation Services, L.L.C. on a False Claims Act violation theory.

Encore Rehabilitation Services LLC (Encore) has agreed to pay $4.03 million to resolve allegations that Encore violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing three Michigan skilled nursing facilities to submit false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation t

A jury found that a hospital and medical group created a
hostile work environment and wrongfully discharged three
nurses based on their opposition to a supervisor’s harassment,
using a pretext that the nurses had abused a patient. The nurses
soon found new jobs, but a year later lost them when the State of
California filed criminal charges against them for the patient
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White Plains, NY - The United States of America charged Barbara Meyzen, a/k/a "Bobbie Meyzen" with wire fraud.

Barbara Meyzen, a/k/a "Bobbie Meyzen," the owner and operator of La Cremaillere Restaurant in Banksville, New York, pled guilty to wire fraud in connection with her multi-year scheme to defraud the restaurant’s lenders, mortgagee, bankruptcy creditors, and customers. MEYZEN p

Nashville, TN - The United States of America claimed that Diversicare Health Services, Inc. knowingly submitted false claims for Medicare services.

Diversicare Health Services, Inc., has agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable, nece

Forty years ago, Congress recognized that refugees fleeing imminent persecution do not have the luxury of choosing their escape route into the United States. It mandated equity in its treatment of all refugees, however they arrived.1
This principle is embedded in the Refugee Act of 1980, which established an asylum procedure available to any migrant, “irrespective of such alien’s status,�

Sacramento, CA - The United States of America charged Jai Vijay with:

CONSPIRACY TO PAY AND RECEIVE HEALTH CARE KICKBACKS

Jai Vijay, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the owners of home health care agencies and a hospice agency to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals.

According to court documents, Jai Vijay�

Tulsa, OK - Carol Muller and Robert P. Muller sued Southcrest, LLC on medical malpractice theories claiming to have been injured and/or damaged as a direct result of Carol Muller suffering a brain injury post surgery on September 3, 2008.

Plaintiffs claimed that Southcrest's nurses did not follow policies and procedures and the Oklahoma Nursing Act when they transferred Ms. Muller to