Consolidation: 3M is a diversified global manufacturer, technology innovator and marketer of a wide variety of products. All applicable subsidiaries are consolidated. All intercompany transactions are eliminated. As used herein, the term 3M or Company refers to 3M Company and subsidiaries unless the context indicates otherwise. Basis of presentation: Certain amounts in the prior years consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. As described in Note 19, effective in the first quarter of 2020, the Company changed its business segment reporting in its continuing effort to improve the alignment of businesses around markets and customers. Additionally, the Company consolidated the way it presents geographic area net sales by providing an aggregate Americas geographic region (combining former United States and Latin America and Canada areas). Also,
Behind the special unit that investigated New York s nursing home deaths
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2019 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference at her office in New York. New York s attorney general on Thursday, June 18, 2020, blasted the New York City Police Department and the mayor for ignoring repeated invitations to testify at a hearing on allegations that officers used excessive force to quell unrest and enforce a citywide curfew in the wake of George Floyd s death in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, FIle)Richard Drew
ALBANY The special bureau in the attorney general s office that investigated breakdowns in the treatment of nursing home residents during the coronavirus pandemic took shape about 45 years ago when state leaders, including then-Gov. Hugh Carey, created an autonomous unit that was staffed with prosecutors and tasked with probing fraud and malfeasance in long-term elderly care facilities.
Former Birmingham psychologist gets federal prison, $1.5 million restitution in Medicaid fraud case
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
A former Birmingham psychologist has been sentenced after defrauding the Alabama Medicaid Agency of at least $1.5 million by filing false claims for counseling services that were not provided.
Sharon D. Waltz, 51, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison. She was also ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution, according to a joint statement by Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Department of Health and Human Services -Office of Inspector General Special Agent Derrick L. Jackson.