Several formerly homeless people — each drawn into an Aurora-based enterprise known as “The Program” that promised free housing and cash in return for letting a home-health business administer prescriptions they were given — said they were pressed into signing nondisclosure agreements about the arrangement just days before Medicaid suspended the agency amid investigations into alleged fraud.
At least four participants told The Denver Gazette they were threatened with eviction last week if they didn’t sign the agreements. Each of them said they signed, adding they knew others who did the same.
It’s unclear how many others were pushed to sign or which of the several business entities involved in the enterprise was pressing for the signatures. “The Program” operates in about a half-dozen homes sprinkled across eastern Aurora, each with about eight residents. The Denver Gazette could not independently confirm the contents of the document…