The owner and operator of a New Jersey home health aide agency was arrested last Friday for allegedly billing Medicaid for services her company had not rendered, the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced after executing multiple search warrants leading up to the arrest. Laurie Provost, the owner/operator of Home Care Solutions, was charged […]
Category: Medicaid
Home health industry advocates in Oregon are pushing for assistance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services following an announcement from the agency that it would reduce home health reimbursements in 2014. Rural home health providers in the state are particularly hard-hit, according to a recent Oregonian report, leading the state’s Congressional delegation to […]
With baby boomers projected to tip the senior population landscape with a proportion of one in every five Americans by 2050, there’s a large question as to where they will live and how they will receive necessary care. Home care has risen as one possible solution, writes a Congressional Budget Office report published this week. […]
Some Florida families are gearing up for the elimination of home care services provided under the state’s PACE program, which will experience a funding cut to its Hillsborough County program after Governor Rick Scott vetoed the $1.3 million in funding. Local home care provider Chapters Health System decided to close its business citing funding cuts, […]
Two New York home care agencies that received government scrutiny and paid multi-million dollar settlements for false reimbursement claims are being allowed into the state’s managed care system, reports the New York Times. When New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo was the state’s attorney general, he conducted an investigation of Medicaid fraud and reclaimed a total […]
A New York home health agency is facing $1 million in fines relating to a settlement over poorly-trained and untrained home-healh aides it employed to care for the elderly and infirm while offering services under Medicaid. Brooklyn-based and state-licensed Parkshore Home Health Care doing business as Home Health Care, Inc., has settled with both New […]
Considering a recent analysis of training for personal care aides working in publicly-funded home care programs that found standards were inconsistent or in many states nonexistent, the topic of a new program at the College of Southern Nevada is extremely timely: Home Care Aide Training. Home health care is one of the fastest-growing businesses throughout […]
Two unions are competing against each other to represent home care workers in Vermont, just days after the state officially granted those workers the right to unionize, reports the VTDigger. Vermont is home to about 7,000 home care workers, and both the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Service Employees International […]
A national coalition of organizations advocating healthcare fraud prevention called on Congress this week to implement program integrity reforms to further protect America’s seniors from fraud and abuse. Fight Fraud First! (FFF!) is an collaborative effort on behalf of seniors, persons with disabilities, military veterans and family members to advocate for the elimination of waste, […]
State Medicaid fraud prevention programs now have the ability to receive federal funding to identify fraud through data mining, according to a new final rule from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. The new rule amends a provision in HHS regulations that barred state Medicaid Fraud Control […]
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