Home Health & Hospice Week
Ohio Agency Owes $700K After Audit
If it’s not documented, it’s not done. That maxim proved true once again in an audit of an Ohio Medicaid provider that resulted in a $700,000 overpayment owed to the state.
Jama & Sulub Home Health Care, dba Accessible Home Health Care, in Columbus owes that amount to Ohio’s Medicaid program because it couldn’t prove it provided services it billed for and couldn’t show its home health aides had required training, reports the Columbus Dispatch newspaper.
In other cases, the business had performed services not authorized by a doctor’s care plan, or had allowed "ineligible employees" — often the parents of young clients — to perform services instead of a home health aide, according to a state audit.
The agency closed last year. The Accessible franchise parent cut ties with Jama & Sulub in early 2010 because it was not following the company’s quality-assurance program and was not paying the company royalties, the newspaper says.
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