Government dropping fraud suit against nursing chain

Just one week after Justice Department lawyers argued that a national nursing-care provider had bilked Medicare out of millions of dollars in unnecessary services, government lawyers are now moving to drop their lawsuit entirely. Toledo, Ohio-based HCR ManorCare, which operates more than 270 skilled nursing facilities across the country, was accused of abusing the Medicare rules to overbill the government, sometimes by putting frail and dying patients through arduous rehabilitation programs unne