Bernie Kohn

1 month ago | news.bgov.com | Andrew Oxford |Bill Swindell |Bernie Kohn

Covid-19 was ripping across the world, California was urging residents to stay home, and it was all getting in Elon Musk’s way. Determined not to let pandemic precautions dent factory production, the CEO of Tesla Inc. reopened the company’s Bay Area production plant, flouting local policies. “F*ck Elon Musk,” Lorena Gonzalez, then a California state assembly member, posted to Twitter on May 9, 2020. Gonzalez’s comment broke with Democratic orthodoxy.

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Celine Castronuovo |Bernie Kohn

A Rhode Island hospital kept billing for nursing home care and Medicaid kept writing checks, no questions asked. No questions about costs as high as $550,000 per patient, per year. No questions about invoices for services rarely allowed at nursing homes, including physically and chemically restraining patients. No questions about why some medical patients remained hospitalized for years with diagnoses as benign as high blood pressure.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Celine Castronuovo |Bernie Kohn

A Rhode Island hospital kept billing for nursing home care and Medicaid kept writing checks, no questions asked. No questions about costs as high as $550,000 per patient, per year. No questions about invoices for services rarely allowed at nursing homes, including physically and chemically restraining patients. No questions about why some medical patients remained hospitalized for years with diagnoses as benign as high blood pressure.

2 months ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Courtney Rozen |Bernie Kohn

The Trump administration’s latest moves to encourage departures of federal employees is poised to be its most effective as its more grounded in the law than the earlier deferred resignation proposal that failed to convince enough workers to leave. Federal agencies including those that oversee health and Social Security are giving their employees the option to retire early and offering other staff up to $25,000 to leave.

2 months ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Courtney Rozen |Bernie Kohn

The Trump administration’s latest moves to encourage departures of federal employees is poised to be its most effective as its more grounded in the law than the earlier deferred resignation proposal that failed to convince enough workers to leave. Federal agencies including those that oversee health and Social Security are giving their employees the option to retire early and offering other staff up to $25,000 to leave.