Carespring Health Care Faces Federal Fraud Lawsuit Over Poor Quality of Care at Kentucky Nursing Facility

On July 15, 2011, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Eastern Kentucky sued Villaspring Health Care Center, a nursing facility in northern Kentucky, and its parent company, Carespring Health Care Management, alleging in a civil complaint that poor quality of care was a contributing factor in the deaths of five Villaspring residents, and that billing Medicare and Medicaid for poor quality care constituted fraud. A hearing date has not been set. This is the first suit filed in Kentucky in which the government alleges that a nursing home defrauded Medicare and Medicaid by submitting bills for reimbursement for providing . . .