UNDER THE WIRE.Late-breaking facts CALL FOR HALT TO FLA FLA Florida (old style) FLA Macromedia Flash (file extension) FLA Flash Files (file extension) FLA Fair Labor Association FLA Front Line Assembly . SNF SNF abbr. skilled nursing facility SNF solids-not-fat; a comment on the composition of milk. SALE ... A consortium of patient-advocacy groups recently requested Florida officials to interrupt the sale of 12 nursing homes. The Coalition to Protect America's Elders in Tallahassee said the National Healthcare Corp. should not be allowed to sell its dozen Florida sites because the Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based nursing home chain has ties to the buyers, The Coalition alleges that National Healthcare is providing Steve Strawn, VP, operations and a 20-year employee of the company, with $20 million in funding to set up fictitious Based upon a fabrication or pretense. A fictitious name is an assumed name that differs from an individual's actual name. A fictitious action is a lawsuit brought not for the adjudication of an actual controversy between the parties but merely for the purpose of companies to buy the Florida nursing homes. The consortium asked the state Agency for Health Care Administration and the Medicaid Fraud Medicaid fraud The fraudulent billing of Medicaid by physicians or other health care providers, especially international medical graduates and psychiatrists. See Medicaid. Control Unit of the Florida Attorney General's office to investigate. National Healthcare said it was selling because the chain could not secure affordable liability insurance. |
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