Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/category/business/page/2/)
PharMerica Corp. has paid millions in fines to settle federal claims of defrauding Medicaid, dispensing painkillers without prescriptions and paying kickbacks to win nursing home business. Today it is disputing whistleblower claims that it took kickbacks from two drug companies to switch nursing home patients across the country to their brands.
A Jefferson County Judge has refused to toss out a civil suit alleging the corporate owner of 17 Kentucky mobile home parks illegally evicted residents. One of the company’s owners is campaign chairman for gubernatorial candidate Jack Conway, the Attorney General.
The former manager of a New York investment fund holding $24 million for Kentucky Retirement Systems has pleaded guilty to charges that he looted $9.3 million from the fund and falsified its financial records.
Kentucky has joined a multi-state and federal fraud lawsuit against Cincinnati-based Omnicare Inc., alleging that the company billed the state’s Medicaid program almost $6 billion over nine years for drugs that were given to nursing home patients for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Louisville-based PharMerica Corp., the nation’s second-largest operator of institutional pharmacies, has agreed to settle two federal healthcare fraud lawsuits, court records show.
Kentucky eschews casinos but embraces horse betting. Meanwhile, neighboring states have netted a total of $3.9 billion in taxes in the past decade from their combined eight casinos on the north bank of the Ohio River.
One candidate openly endorses casinos, while two oppose them. Two others won’t say where they stand.
Amending the Constitution has become the go-to route to bring casinos to Kentucky. Here are the steps the state would have to take in order to get more gaming.
In response to the Kentucky state pension plan’s willingness to pay hefty fees for billions of dollars in investments it can’t publicly disclose, one state representative said Thursday he is introducing a bill to make pensions subject to state open-access laws.
How the Kentucky long-term care industry wants to create a detour for people with malpractice claims.