Care homes used untrained rehab workers while collecting millions from Medicaid

Thursday, 9 August 2018Reveal News

Seven adult care homes in North Carolina collected more than $8.4 million in Medicaid funding while employing untrained caregivers, some with serious criminal histories, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

Medicaid-funded caregivers in North Carolina are required to receive at least 80 hours of training within six months of being hired and can’t have criminal convictions for drug trafficking or other specific crimes.

But Reveal found many workers in the homes who said they received little to no training and identified several with criminal convictions that should have barred them from providing Medicaid-funded care.

The workers were participants in a drug rehab program called Recovery Connections Community. Rather than get treatment for their addictions, participants were required to work more than 16-hour days without pay, bathing, feeding and caring for elderly and disabled patients in care homes.

Credit by- Reveal News

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