Thousands of home health aides across New York will receive long-overdue pay after a major settlement announced by Attorney General Letitia James.
James said Americare, a New York City–based home care agency, agreed to return nearly $45 million in unpaid wages to workers and pay an additional $10 million to the Medicaid program, marking the largest wage parity settlement her office has ever secured.
State investigators found that Americare underpaid more than 10,000 home health aides between 2014 and 2020, despite billing Medicaid as if it had fully complied with New York’s Wage Parity Act. That law requires home care agencies to meet minimum wage and benefit standards for aides serving Medicaid recipients…