{"id":762987,"date":"2026-07-14T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:00:28","slug":"rock-island-nursing-home-owner-indicted-in-federal-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762987\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Island nursing home owner indicted in federal fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; The majority owner of a Rock Island nursing home has been indicted in a sprawling federal investigation that revealed over $4 billion in fraudulent healthcare claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Department of Justice, Rajiv Shah, 65, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was charged with conspiracy and healthcare fraud in a $64 million scheme to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare for unnecessary medical equipment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shah is the majority owner of St. Anthony\u2019s Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rock Island. The facility receives a one-star rating from Medicare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation that led to Shah\u2019s indictment involved a dozen defendants and is being prosecuted in the Southern District of Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWQC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; The majority owner of a Rock Island nursing home has been indicted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[51903,17985,6884,97,252,253,282438,1342,4456,326421],"class_list":["post-762987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-charges","tag-department-of-justice","tag-fraud","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-indicted","tag-medicare","tag-shah","tag-st-anthonys-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}