Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone was persuaded. Dr. Wallace Sampson, a member of the National Council Against Health Fraud, complained that the panel had not invited the naysayers. And although the studies presented were mostly conducted in Western countries using accepted scientific methods, several critics pointed out that the best-designed experiments showed the poorest results...
...that wasn't enough for the FBI's Computer Crime Unit, who wanted Kashpureff on wire fraud and nabbed him in Toronto Monday. He is currently being detained in an airport detention center awaiting a deportation hearing...
...California a team of lawyers specializing in fraud has begun to investigate what's killing people in the state's 1,400 nursing homes. In Washington, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, last week dispatched three investigators from the General Accounting Office to California to pore over data, confer with state officials and visit suspect nursing homes. One of their first stops was Creekside (now operating as Vacaville Rehabilitation and Care Center), which denied the investigators access to medical records--until they returned with a subpoena. Grassley calls the California data "troubling...
...which operated the Tucker House nursing home. The nursing-home company settled the case for $600,000, sent condolences to the families of the three residents and--perhaps most important--set off probes by law firms around the country seeking similar evidence of poor care and the resulting fraud. Their plan: to present evidence of widespread fraud to the Justice Department in the hope that the government will take the lead in the case and share in any damages awarded...
...idea of using death certificates to try to prove fraud was born at the Creekside facility. Shortly after Rhoda Johnson moved into Room 52 of the nursing home in 1992, her daughter Ila Swan became concerned about her care. Swan, a 57-year-old former telephone worker, says her anxiety grew when she saw a woman in Room 51, across the hall, try to climb out of bed after her calls for a nurse went unanswered for an hour. According to the woman's roommate, as the woman struggled to get out of the bed, she toppled and struck...