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Attorney General Seeks Out Home Healthcare Staffing Problems and Medicare Fraud

By Levin & Perconti

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Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has joined the fight against fraud in home health care by exposing a large Medicare fraud led by a major home health care corporation. The corporation provides in-home nursing services. In-home nursing service abuse is a growing problem and is often harder to identify than nursing home abuse and neglect. In this case, the home health care corporation coordinated with corrupt health care aide training programs to certify prospective health care aides without ensuring that the prospective aides took required training courses. This incident raises questions about the quality and safety of in home nursing care and should give family members and home care customers pause for thought.

Read the full story here.

Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).

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