Healthcare Compliance Perspective:
False documentation creates harm on multiple levels – it results in reimbursement theft, hides deficient resident care and safety, prolongs employment of undeserving employees, and causes untold pain and suffering for residents who are veterans.
Michigan Attorney General said workers reported checking on patients or responding to fall alarms contrary to what was shown by surveillance video. The review from Oct. 1, 2013
, to Aug. 31, 2015, showed that 43 percent of location checks and 33 percent of fall-alarm checks did not happen. Records compiled by workers, however, showed that the checks occurred almost all of the time.
The criminal charges against the 11 workers were filed Monday, July 24, in District Court. The former workers are charged with an intentional or willful violation by a healthcare provider- a four-year felony and for allegedly including misleading or inaccurate information in patient medical charts or records.
