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U.S. Government Alleges Kentucky Nursing Home Committed Fraud
In a complaint filed by the U.S. government against a Kentucky nursing home chain and its owners, it is alleged that the Kentucky nursing home fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid $16 million for...
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result...
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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the...
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Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant
On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound...
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Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict
In an opinion filed on May 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial judge twice failed to remove...
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Kentucky Former Cardiologist To Be Sentenced In Stent Fraud Scheme
On June 4, 2013, a former cardiologist in Kentucky pleaded guilty to health care fraud for submitting a claim for an unnecessary cardiac stent procedure that was billed to Medicaid. The 51-year-old...
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Kentucky Children’s Hospital Continues To Refuse To Provide Data On Pediatric...
What’s going on with the Kentucky Children’s Hospital? It continues to refuse to provide data regarding pediatric heart surgery deaths despite the March 27, 2013 Open Records Decision of the Kentucky...
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Kentucky Hospital Agrees To Pay $2,833,408.60 To Settle False Claims Allegations
On July 1, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that University...
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Kentucky Hospital Settles Unnecessary Stent Claims
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced on January 28, 2014 that a Kentucky hospital has agreed to pay the United States $16.5 million to resolve civil claims that it...
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