Nursing home residents awarded reimbursement money
Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, January 25, 2007
In late December 2006, a federal court settlement was reached to reimburse almost 20,000 defrauded New York nursing home residents, reported the Buffalo Business First. The suit claimed that the residents were eligible for Medicare, but were required to pay the Medicaid co-pay. The New York State Health Department created the Medicare Optimization Program in 1989, which allowed the double billing. The suit was filed against the state in 1992 claiming that the state did not refund the victims. An $11 million fund was created to reimburse the residents, but it's assumed that the majority of the residents are deceased and heirs to the deceased will receive the reimbursement, reported the Buffalo Business First.
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