Efforts are in play to protect Brooklyn seniors
Federal and New York state authorities have reached a $1 million settlement with a Brooklyn agency that used untrained health aides to care for elderly and disabled clients.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch announced the settlement with Parkshore Home Health Care on Tuesday. Schneiderman said the agency hired workers with false training certificates and sent them into the homes of the vulnerable and elderly. The agency submitted false claims to Medicaid and will return $1 million to the state and federal governments. New York’s Medicaid program requires home health aides to complete a state-licensed training program. The aides administer medication and provide services such as catheter, colostomy and wound care.
Tuesday’s settlement covers home-health hours billed from 2005 to 2007.