Category Archives: Medicaid fraud

Today’s “Fraud of the Day” is based on an article entitled, “Maryland spent up to $7.5 million to keep dead residents healthy” by Rachel Baye, published by The Examiner, December 07, 2011.

Maryland paid $147,000 to cover a resident’s Medicaid expenses starting 11 months after that person died, according to a state audit released Wednesday.

Although the person died in October 2007, the state began paying a nursing home on his behalf in September 2008, and the payments continued until December 2010 “when the payments stopped without any explanation,” the report from the Office of Legislative Audits says.

This posting is based on an article entitled, “Medicaid Provider Accused of Fraud,” by Patricia Wen and Brian Ballou, published by The Boston Globe, Oct. 1, 2011.

Framingham – A nonprofit agency that promoted itself as a compassionate organization devoted to helping disabled, indigent adults stay in their homes was accused by state prosecutors yesterday of running a cynical scam, billing the state for about 20 patients who had been dead for some time.

Prosecutors also said Adlife Healthcare – run by Sharon Richardson at locations in Framingham, Dorchester, Hyannis, and West Springfield – charged Medicaid for home health aid services rendered to more than 100 infirm patients even though its staff had not done the work.