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Valuations
As owners continue to optimize for real estate, reimbursement, and returns through related parties, staffing, ownership, and penalty levels are becoming a public farce, at least on the absolute level. Our analytics showcase data efficacy from independent, alternative sources.
From how investors price the sector (almost solely matrix pricing), to the peer-reviewed caveats. A glimpse into the value we place on staffing, ownership, penalties, and the other facets worth measuring.
Median cap rate on skilled-nursing sales. These are valued as real estate off net operating income, not care quality.
Lument, Skilled Nursing State of the Market · 2025
What a nursing-home bed traded for on average in 2024. Quality assets cleared over $110,000; the average was pulled down by distressed sales.
Irving Levin Associates, Senior Care Acquisition Report · 2025
Reported all-payer margin next to the Medicare-only margin the government's own advisers found for freestanding homes.
MedPAC March 2025 report, via CLA · 2025
Share of industry profit routed to owner-controlled sister companies by 2019, so the books the government relies on show about a third of it.
Gandhi & Olenski, NBER WP 32258 · rev. 2025
Asset value, per bed, that a single related-party sale-leaseback moves out of reach of a family's claim.
Gandhi & Olenski, NBER WP 32258 · rev. 2025
The implied return on buying a home, before and after counting hidden profit and tunneled assets. It nearly triples.
Gandhi & Olenski, NBER WP 32258 · rev. 2025
Legal
The results illustrating the changing landscape. Whether it's skirting the line, outright fraud, or partial negligence. The industry leaves breadcrumbs the competition picks up.
Brighton Rehab & Mt. Lebanon
W.D. Pa. · jury conviction 2023 · affirmed 3rd Cir. 2026
$15.35M restitution
A federal jury convicted both homes of padding staffing sheets with people who were not working, to fake the minimum ratio and keep the funds. The payroll record was the fraud and the proof.
DOJ, W.D. Pa.; Third Circuit affirmance · 2026Ledesma v. Mariner Health Central
Alameda County, CA · jury verdict 2021
$13.5M verdict
Payroll staffing filings attesting that staff worked were cross-referenced against state sign-in sheets. Named employees could not be found. The public staffing dataset carried the fraud finding.
Alameda County jury verdict; trial-counsel account · 2021Ruckh v. Consulate Health Care
11th Cir. · jury verdict reinstated 2020
~$255M reinstated
A jury's False Claims Act liability was restored on appeal, on inflated therapy levels submitted to Medicare and false care-plan certifications. The reimbursement record was the case.
963 F.3d 1089 (11th Cir. 2020)NY AG v. Centers for Care
New York Attorney General · 2024
$45M resolution
The investigation traced public dollars out through owner-controlled companies. Rent to a sister landlord at one home rose from about $600,000 to $2 million after the owners bought it.
NY AG press release · Nov 2024 (settlement, no admission)ReNew Health Group
C.D. Cal. & California · 2024
$7.08M resolution
Claims data showed skilled care billed under a COVID waiver for residents who had no qualifying need. A first-of-its-kind waiver case, carried by the billing record itself.
DOJ, C.D. Cal. · Apr 2024 (no admission)St. Margaret's Center
N.D.N.Y. · 2026
$1.3M resolution
State surveys and a Special Focus Facility designation, with immediate jeopardy for over a month, carried a worthless-services resolution at a facility for medically fragile children.
DOJ, N.D.N.Y. · Feb 2026 (no admission)BreadcrumbsA Finding is an adjudicated outcome, a verdict, a conviction, an affirmed appeal. A Settlement resolves allegations without an admission of liability.
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