As home health care industry booms, little oversight to counter fraud
September 6th, 2007Experts and officials in New York say the home health care industry is fraught with a confusing hodgepodge of regulations and oversight agencies, leaving people who are disabled or elderly vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
… state officials do not even know precisely how many home health aides work in New York, though such figures are readily available for dozens of other state-regulated fields, from interior design to acupuncture.
“To make someone else’s home fabulous, you need a license and your name goes in a state registry,” said Jeffrey Lerner, a spokesman for the state attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo. “But to care for someone in their home who is old and infirm, there is no central registry.”
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