City Council scrutinizes ‘pop up’ senior centers
They’re called “pop up” senior citizen centers because they suddenly appear out of nowhere, usually opening up in a storefront location in a community with signs promising to give older adults an array of health and educational services.
They look like your average senior citizen center, but these “pop up” centers don’t offer the services legitimate centers do, according to City Council members. Instead, the centers lure unsuspecting senior citizens and entice them into signing on with a managed health care program. By signing seniors up for managed care, the operators of these centers are able to collect Medicaid reimbursements, officials said.
In other words, it’s all a scheme, officials said.