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• Nursing Home Problems With Staffing Should Influence Federal 5-Star Rating System: Study

  January 23, 2025

  Michael Adams

  New research indicates that nursing home staff instability could potentially move facility ratings up or down by one star, influencing where many families and prospective residents choose to go for care.

• DOJ Sues Nursing Home Provider For Fraud in Multiple States

  April 7, 2022

  Russell Maas

  The Justice Department claims a multistate nursing home care provider defrauded the U.S. government by lying about providing complex and expensive health care services to residents, and often giving them expensive medical treatments and services they did not need.

• Medical Malpractice Reform Plan Unlikely To Lower Healthcare Costs: Leading Medical Journal

  May 2, 2017

  Irvin Jackson

  An editorial by the New England Journal of Medicine warns that proposed provisions to reform medical malpractice claims by limiting non-economic damages and shielding doctors will not lead to lower costs or better healthcare.

• GOP Bill Seeks to Restrict Medical Malpractice Rights for Consumers

  April 21, 2017

  Irvin Jackson

  A new proposal by Republicans in Congress would hamper the elderly and low-income individuals from receiving compensation from medical malpractice claims, critics say.

• Maryland Diagnostic Firm Misreading X-Rays May Have Contributed to Four Deaths

  April 13, 2015

  Irvin Jackson

  A grand jury has charged a Baltimore man of running a fraudulent medical imaging company that has been linked to the deaths of at least four patients.