Oregon Health Authority chose not to subject owners of company tied to Arizona Medicaid fraud case to background checks or site visits before paying company at least $2.3 million
As we rapidly approach the mid-term election, are there any candidates, on either side, and at any level, talking about this? 250,000 voters want the transportation bill to be repealed/amended, I would think these voters would also appreciate learning about other fraud and waste emanating from the marble nut house.
Thank you Mr. Eager for keeping this front and center.
Of course the elephant in the room (us) would really like to know if OHA's cavalier attitude in approving this obviously fraudulent 'provider' for public funds is systemic, of if this approval was an outlier. Certainly, OHA must regularly vigorously vet potential providers. - Sarcasm, in case you missed it.
Any bets on how many other approved providers lack basic qualifications? Hey, if the feds don't specifically require basic background checks, that's good enough for OHA. Who are they to impose basic good sense qualifications on these dedicated providers?
Incredibly thorough dig into the oversight gaps here. The fact that OHA opted for the lightest scrutiny category when federal regs don't even list 'outpatient behavioral health' among the 34 covered categories is wild. Back when I worked adjacent to healthcare compliance, saw similar shell games with providers gaming the categorization system to dodge site vistis. That $2.3M figure being just direct payments makes this way bigger than it looks on paper.
That is the totality of what this is about. Woke Portlanders are thrilled about "our Somali community," no matter what they might or might not be doing. l would be interested in knowing how much we are spending per person on their upkeep.
Thanks again for exposing another belly flop by an agency we hoped would be actually looking out for the citizens. Seems Kotek’s Socialist governance preferences just keep yielding grift and fraud. Wonder when it’ll stop?
Uplifting indeed, while taxpayers are robbed. This is the sort of behavior we have come to expect from the woke politicians we elect. Let’s rise up and boot them out of office this year!
So medical providers in Oregon are subject to background checks (including fingerprinting) as per OHA but a select chosen few are not? Sounds like discrimination to me.
OHA is an absolute failure, who could have predicted that a huge bureaucracy related to healthcare would be so dysfunctional and wasteful.
This is so odd. Adult foster providers and 24 residential homes have regular site visits and monitoring visits from case managers to review files and inspect the facilities, as well as yearly or rotating licensing inspections and annual background checks—required yearly training. I have never heard of anything like this. Billing is also very strict. You can only bill by the day the client is in the home. You do not bill by the hour. The compliance is very, very heavy, some of the strictest in the nation. I wonder why this system appears so lax compared to the other one. I have never heard of such a system, although I am not deeply familiar with this type of treatment/care setup.
Most of our articles are free for other publications to use. We have a whole separate email system that goes to 266 Oregon news people. They all have it and are free to run it. They haven’t.
first, is there a requirement that OHA and Oregon in general needs to be as idiot, or more so, than the egregiously lax federal requirements. Second, OHA, as apparently all other Oregon agencies, is at best absolutely incompetent if not wholly corrupt. Unless and until the voters of Oregon smarten up none of this will change
As we rapidly approach the mid-term election, are there any candidates, on either side, and at any level, talking about this? 250,000 voters want the transportation bill to be repealed/amended, I would think these voters would also appreciate learning about other fraud and waste emanating from the marble nut house.
Thank you Mr. Eager for keeping this front and center.
Some people are talking about it, but the people who can do something about it have chosen for various reasons not to. We're sticking with this story.
Of course the elephant in the room (us) would really like to know if OHA's cavalier attitude in approving this obviously fraudulent 'provider' for public funds is systemic, of if this approval was an outlier. Certainly, OHA must regularly vigorously vet potential providers. - Sarcasm, in case you missed it.
Any bets on how many other approved providers lack basic qualifications? Hey, if the feds don't specifically require basic background checks, that's good enough for OHA. Who are they to impose basic good sense qualifications on these dedicated providers?
OHA does rigorously verify established providers, complete with fingerprints and background checks, just not Julius Maximo types. You can imagine why.
Incredibly thorough dig into the oversight gaps here. The fact that OHA opted for the lightest scrutiny category when federal regs don't even list 'outpatient behavioral health' among the 34 covered categories is wild. Back when I worked adjacent to healthcare compliance, saw similar shell games with providers gaming the categorization system to dodge site vistis. That $2.3M figure being just direct payments makes this way bigger than it looks on paper.
Bingo.
Rest assured.... someone is getting rich. And it ain't you silly taxpayer...
This is an outrage! OHA is disgusting. DEI and Wokism probably played a role in this. This should be covered by the local news in Portland.
"DEI and Wokism probably played a role in this."
That is the totality of what this is about. Woke Portlanders are thrilled about "our Somali community," no matter what they might or might not be doing. l would be interested in knowing how much we are spending per person on their upkeep.
Local news can’t be bothered, much less investigate and do serious journalism.
They seem to be to busy shilling for the anti-ICE crowds
it just keeps getting piled higher and wider. pretty soon little Oregon will be able to provide prime fertilizer to the whole country.
Thanks again for exposing another belly flop by an agency we hoped would be actually looking out for the citizens. Seems Kotek’s Socialist governance preferences just keep yielding grift and fraud. Wonder when it’ll stop?
Uplifting indeed, while taxpayers are robbed. This is the sort of behavior we have come to expect from the woke politicians we elect. Let’s rise up and boot them out of office this year!
So medical providers in Oregon are subject to background checks (including fingerprinting) as per OHA but a select chosen few are not? Sounds like discrimination to me.
OHA is an absolute failure, who could have predicted that a huge bureaucracy related to healthcare would be so dysfunctional and wasteful.
This is so odd. Adult foster providers and 24 residential homes have regular site visits and monitoring visits from case managers to review files and inspect the facilities, as well as yearly or rotating licensing inspections and annual background checks—required yearly training. I have never heard of anything like this. Billing is also very strict. You can only bill by the day the client is in the home. You do not bill by the hour. The compliance is very, very heavy, some of the strictest in the nation. I wonder why this system appears so lax compared to the other one. I have never heard of such a system, although I am not deeply familiar with this type of treatment/care setup.
Can you submit this to some mainstream press in PDX. How about Oregon Journalism Project I would bet Nigel would be interested in this?
Most of our articles are free for other publications to use. We have a whole separate email system that goes to 266 Oregon news people. They all have it and are free to run it. They haven’t.
I'll take that bet.
Please publish the 17 Law Enforcement (LOPD, Clackamas County Sheriff, etc.) reports. Black out the reporting citizen’s ID, etc.
first, is there a requirement that OHA and Oregon in general needs to be as idiot, or more so, than the egregiously lax federal requirements. Second, OHA, as apparently all other Oregon agencies, is at best absolutely incompetent if not wholly corrupt. Unless and until the voters of Oregon smarten up none of this will change