Three New York nursing homes, Cliffside Rehabilitation & Residential Health Center, Forest View Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, and Woodcrest Rehabilitation & Residential Center, have agreed to pay over $745,000 for Medicaid fraud under the New York State False Claims Act.  The nursing homes allegedly billed Medicaid for unoccupied beds, billed for more costly placements with unnecessary dialysis machines and ventilators, and billed simultaneously for reserved beds supposedly kept vacant and for patients who were placed in those beds.

The whistleblower who brought the case to the state’s attention, an employee for 21 years, was fired shortly after he complained about the facilities’ practices.

Read the entire article, “Any Staff Member Can Blow the Whistle, NY Case Shows”