Comments on Advance Indiana™: American Senior Communities Says It's In Compliance With All Laws Regulating Its Nursing Homes

Someone needs to remind Kip Tew he has a duty to d...

2015-09-18T16:20:33.739-05:00

Someone needs to remind Kip Tew he has a duty to disclose his law firm has represented both ASC and the Health & Hospital Corporation when he decides to participate in discussions at city council meetings.

You've been the canary in the mine on this sca...

2015-09-17T21:11:56.683-05:00

You've been the canary in the mine on this scam, Gary. I had to laugh at how stupid our council members were tonight in questioning HHC CEO Matt Gutwein about their nursing home scam. Gutwein gave the council members the impression HHC owns these nursing homes. Not true. The underlying real estate is owned by ASC or another entity, leased to HHC, which acquires a nursing home license for the facility in its name and then leases the facility back to ASC to operate. HHC's ownership is a pure fiction just like you've explained on this blog to defraud the Medicaid system. The facility only gets the higher reimbursement rate based on the fiction HHC owns it. HHC has zero role in running any of these facilities. It splits the kickback for the higher reimbursement rates with ASC and uses the money for Eskenazi. HHC has no participation in the care of the facilities' residents. Contrary to Gutwein's claims, quality of care is below average at many of these nursing homes despite the much higher reimbursement rates they are receiving to care for those residents.

They say: "All is well." Translation: ...

2015-09-17T13:43:43.717-05:00

They say: "All is well."
Translation: "oh oh."

Could not agree more. Look at Durham. By the tim...

2015-09-16T20:14:52.691-05:00

Could not agree more. Look at Durham. By the time the search warrants went down, there had already been a wiretap for several months. The search warrant and everything found via it is usually just icing on the cake.

Just a comment from this observer: I have never k...

2015-09-16T16:23:38.478-05:00

Just a comment from this observer: I have never known the FBI to execute a search warrant until after it knows it will find evidence. The search warrant lets the target know they are onto them, thus the case is "practically proven" before they let the target know they are looking.