A wave of nursing home acquisitions by out-of-state chains has coincided with declining care quality in Massachusetts. The state’s post-pandemic nursing home market has allowed aggressive new owners like RegalCare to acquire facilities, reduce costs and redirect substantial sums to affiliated businesses while star ratings declined, according to the Boston Globe’s Spotlight nursing home investigation. […]
RegalCare Management Group
Massachusetts nursing home operator RegalCare Management Group and two of its executives have agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the company submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. RegalCare, owner Eliyahu Mirlis and executive Hector Caraballo admitted that, between 2018 and 2023, their […]
Nineteen nursing homes in Massachusetts and Connecticut have been named in a joint complaint alleging systematic fraudulent billing of Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary care. The facilities, along with present and former management companies RegalCare Management Group, RegalCare Management 2.0, owner Eliyahu Mirlis and executive Hector Caraballo, and therapy company Stern Therapy Consultants were involved […]
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