Vencor nursing homes face expanding probes

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Vencor Inc., which owns the nation's fourth-largest chain of nursing homes, is facing legal probes concerning billing and patient care in its nursing homes. Kentucky's state attorney general has launched a criminal investigation of alleged patient neglect. Federal and state investigations in Florida concerning nursing home evictions are ongoing. California's state attorney general is inquiring into the alleged neglect of three nursing home patients. And Colorado's state attorney general is investigating patient transfers from Vencor's Denver-area nursing homes to its hospital.

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Facing legal probes concerning billing and patient care in its nursing homes

Nursing & Rest Homes, Nursing and Residential Care Facilities, Legal/Government Regulation, Nursing homes, Article

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Medicare billing by Vencor Inc. probed by U.S

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Vencor Inc. is being investigated by the Justice Department over its Medicare billing practices. The operator of long-term acute-care hospitals and nursing homes has been under investigation since early summer, as it disclosed in its latest quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to someone with knowledge of the situation, the subpoena is very broad but is focused on Vencor's hospital operations.

Hospitals, Health care industry, Investigations, United States. Department of Justice, Medicare fraud, VC

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Inside the game of e-mail hijacking; look-alike Web addresses, run by foes or pranksters, can snag errant missives

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Small errors in e-mail addresses can direct you mail by accident or on purpose. It seems that there are people out there who are establishing Web sites that are similar to e-mail addresses so that they can receive errant mail when someone accidentally types ".com" instead of ".org." It is small errors like these that can send your private mail to the wrong person.

Prepackaged software, Telegraph & other communications, Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Electronic Mail Services, Online services, Internet services, Electronic mail systems, E-mail, Email, Email software, Crime, Internet/Web technology

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