Massachusetts home care company pays $1.25M for alleged Medicaid fraud
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 30, 2021
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey disclosed earlier this month that her office has reached a $1.25 million settlement with Lawrence, MA-based Lifod Home Health Care LLC and its owner, Kariuki...
CEO urges Congress to support senior care services
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 07, 2021
In an open letter Tuesday congratulating members of the 117th Congress on the start of “a new and challenging legislative year,” Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of Leading Age and acting president...
Virginia’s home care workers at risk without Medicaid rate increase, lawmakers and providers say
By
Joe Jancsurak
Jan 27, 2021
A minimum wage hike might sound like a great step for home care. But unless Medicaid reimbursement rises as well, it puts home care agencies in a difficult position. That is what two Virginia state lawmakers...
CMS further delays start of Primary Care First-Seriously Ill Population model
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Joe Jancsurak
Mar 17, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has disclosed another delay — but no definitive timeline — of its Primary Care First-Seriously Ill Population physician payment model, which the hospice...
Home healthcare professional sentenced, ordered to pay $94K in multi-million dollar fraud case
By
Joe Jancsurak
Dec 14, 2020
A home healthcare industry employee involved in a multi-million dollar fraud case was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge to four years of probation, including six months of home detention, and was...
Adults who provide home care for parents gain court victory
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Joe Jancsurak
Mar 24, 2021
A recent court ruling likely will lead to a substantial expansion in the number of homes transferred to the owners’ child caregivers in New Jersey, according to a story in The National Law Review journal.
Decades old LTC policies hold $800B in benefit value: report
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 14, 2021
The time is right for state policymakers to adopt policy and regulatory approaches to support the retention of benefit value in long-term care insurance policies. Doing so would help protect the financial...
Home healthcare owner defrauds Medicaid of $1M, receives 5-year sentence
By
Joe Jancsurak
Dec 04, 2020
The owner and operator of an Atlanta-based home healthcare provider has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for defrauding the Medicaid program out of almost $1 million.
Home care providers applaud Biden’s executive order to revisit Public Charge rule
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Joe Jancsurak
Feb 03, 2021
Home care and home health providers praised President Biden Tuesday for signing an executive order to revisit the Trump administration’s Public Charge rule, which denied green cards to illegal immigrants...
Increased funding would transform direct-care workforce, PHI policy head asserts
By
Joe Jancsurak
Feb 09, 2021
The Biden administration could transform the direct care workforce with stepped-up funding, according to PHI VP of Policy Robert Espinoza in a Monday op-ed piece.