The agency overseeing Colorado’s federal Medicaid program has suspended an Aurora home-health agency that is the focus of an investigation into an enterprise that lured dozens of homeless people with promises of free housing and cash and reaped tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements.
Officials said it has stopped paying Medicaid claims filed by On Going Home Health Care pending the outcome of its inquiry into “The Program,” an elaborate and intertwined confederation of businesses that provided shelter, money and prescriptions to homeless participants in return for billing the federal program for administering the drugs.
The Program was the center of a Denver Gazette investigation last month that exposed how On Going HHC, after just three years, had turned itself into a thriving multimillion-dollar business that centered on servicing the homeless. It’s unclear if it had any other clients…