Government Watchdog Exposes $200M Autism Care Fraud Across Four States

UNKNOWN: “Playing on tablets, watching movies when they’re supposed to be providing them therapy. Essentially. In Colorado, one provider billed for 151 hours of therapy in a single month. We saw staff without credentials delivered therapy across multiple states. The audit found up to $600 million of Medicaid benefits were paid out in four states Indiana, Wisconsin, Maine and Colorado, with potentially improper billings ranging from things that didn’t include therapy to patients that weren’t even properly diagnosed with autism. If you look at cost per household, let’s say in Colorado, it’s about $35 per household was wasted on this, about $21 p household in Indiana, 79 in Maine, and just $8 in Wisconsin. So there’s a lot more to come because there’s only these four that we.”

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Government Watchdog Exposes $200M Autism Care Fraud Across Four States‘We saw staff without credentials delivered therapy across multiple states’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:UNKNOWN: “Playing on tablets, watching movies when they’re supposed to be providing them therapy. Essentially. In Colorado, one provider billed for 151 hours of therapy in a single month. We saw staff without credentials delivered therapy across multiple states. The audit found up to $600 million of Medicaid benefits were paid out in four states Indiana, Wisconsin, Maine and Colorado, with potentially improper billings ranging from things that didn’t include therapy to patients that weren’t even properly diagnosed with autism. If you look at cost per household, let’s say in Colorado, it’s about $35 per household was wasted on this, about $21 p household in Indiana, 79 in Maine, and just $8 in Wisconsin. So there’s a lot more to come because there’s only these four that we.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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