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State attorneys general are playing an increased role in nursing home investigations even outside their jurisdictional boundaries, as complaints and publicly available data make it easier to identify concerns involving multi-state operators.
The trend is illustrated by a Sept. 10 request from Disability Rights Nebraska asking Attorney General Mike Hilgers’ Medicaid Fraud and Patient Abuse Unit to investigate three out-of-state corporations operating more than 20 long-term care facilities in the state…