Staatliche Belohnungen Home Care Unternehmen einmal zurechtgewiesen

The cost of care for the frail elderly and disabled people at home had more than doubled from 2003 to 2010 for $1.3 billion, although fewer people were taken care of. And that enormous cost had been expelled, only half a dozen certified Gastein.com health agencies from 140 municipalities in Brooklyn.

Two names stand: excellent home care and home care. While one was broad-based investigations of Medicaid as he led Attorney General, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo had $3.7 million its role in the reconquest of excellent presents and $9.5 million extended in a claims settlement wrong suits against them. The agencies admitted to no wrongdoing.

Now a transformation of the country is care system in the long run at full speed, as the State has extended invitations to agencies, a part of the new system. Selected under these: excellent and expanded.

"I know not what disqualified an organization would do this," said Susan Regan, a longtime member of the State public health planning Council was outraged to discover on page 221 of an agenda, that the Health Ministry had confirmed excellent for an extended license.

Officials see the new system as a national model for permanent containment of Medicaid costs. They said had improved both excellent and extended and had been approved to take larger roles through a standard application.

But both companies deep connections to policy makers. Excellent owners and collecting money for both parties contributed have, and a fundraiser for Mr. Cuomo, Democrat was his lawyer.

For extended, which paid $150,000 of the lobbying firm of former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York in the last year and its owner until recently included Joseph Zappala, a longtime Republican fundraiser, it was for a new, potentially more lucrative role in the revised system by Dean G. Skelos, the Republican leader in the Senate recommended. According to state law, the leaders of the legislature can nominate four agencies for such roles.

Extension search a coveted role as managed long term plan care and months three ago, which awarded health Commissioner that H.M.O.-status for the company after a year-long review after Chief, Vincent Achilarre, $10,000 in the last year, the Senate Republican campaign Committee of New York donated.

"We" deserved this consent and we received support for our application in the matter", the"high-quality care delivered with compassion and understanding for the needs of our patients."said Mr. Achilarre in an E-mail,quotes

In his nomination Mr. Skelos write the "unique experience in dealing with a diverse home care population." cited advanced A spokesman for the Senator said that "as always, the decision on the merits has been taken."

Richard Azzopardi, a Governor Cuomo of spokesman for, said: "As Attorney General, Governor started against this and other companies, which contribute just happens to be his last campaigns clearly show that there is no relationship between the donations and State action."

Only who is involved in the other applications, is the remaining difficult discoverable, because the Cuomo Administration would not released the applications that have been approved, or those.

Care home was originally as a cheaper alternative to nursing homes and hospitals promoted, but such agencies in the 1990s years greatly increased their bills in the amount soared, and government auditors were overwhelmed. Governor Mario M. Cuomo imposed a moratorium on the licensing of new agencies in 1994, nationwide such as President Bill Clinton in 1997.

The administration of Governor George E. Pataki soon opened a loophole: limited licenses for the supervision of groups with special needs. Advanced and excellent secured each one, depending on their limiting service to people with developmental disabilities. The Ministry of health should be to monitor their observance.

"It's not how this goes forward, to grow in thousands and thousands of cases", said a member of the State health planning Council, 1998, when the excellent special license has been granted. But by the year 2010, when the State Finally, excellent thousands of patients, only 5 have the percent had developmental problems and collected $93 million from Medicaid.

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