TRENTON — Two adult day care facilities will pay a combined $650,000 to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud and shoddy record-keeping, state authorities said Tuesday.
Broadway Adult Day Care in Fair Lawn and Bayonne Adult Medical Day Care will each pay $325,000 through the agreement with the Medicaid Fraud Division at the state Comptroller’s Office. Neither has admitted any wrongdoing.
In both cases, investigators from the Comptroller’s Office say they found the facilities failed to keep adequate records over a five-year period to prove that services billed to Medicaid had actually been performed.
Heating program vulnerable to fraud
According to the complaints, the Broadway facility couldn’t prove it had performed services including blood glucose monitoring for needy patients, and Bayonne had no records showing its monitoring program was being performed according to physician orders.
State Comptroller Philip James Degnan said in a statement such bookkeeping is “essential, as it documents the services that …
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