Two trainers of home health aides admit fraud
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, August 28, 2007
The former owners of two unrelated schools that trained home health aides in New York admitted to selling state certifications to hundreds of people who never received proper training.
The pleas stemmed from an investigation by the state attorney general's (AG) office. The AG called the schools, which were licensed by the state, "certification mills" linked to a wide spread and elaborate scheme to defraud Medicaid.
For a fee of $300 to $400, the operators would supply certificates of completion for state-required home health aide training courses. Many of the aides possessing certifications from the two schools had received no training, and as a result, Medicaid was billed for services provided by unqualified aides, and Medicaid patients were given care by untrained aides.
Medicaid requires home health aides to successfully complete a training program licensed by the Department of Health or the state education department. All such aides must receive a minimum of 75 hours of training, including 16 hours of supervised practical training conducted by a registered nurse, and must pass an examination.
For more information, visit the New York AG's Web site.
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