Exclusive | $950M in shady billing, aides like homeless people at NJ senior care company: sources

A New Jersey-based medical group has presided over $950 million in shady Medicaid billing home health care and adult day care services, an investigation by The Post reveals. One operation owned by Honor Health Network, the Broadway Respite and Home Care in Fair Lawn, NJ, has billed a staggering $157 million from Medicaid from 89,000 unique patients across a six-year period, according to federal spending data.This despite the entire county only having roughly 20,000 elderly Medicaid recipients, according to data from Georgetown University.“It doesn’t look right.It’s very weird,” a former Medicaid fraud investigator, who requested anonymity, told The Post after reviewing the numbers.The home care industry gobbles up hundreds of billions of dollars a year in Medicaid funding, paying individuals to look after homebound, chronically-ill seniors.

However, it is routinely scammed, according to federal authorities and previous Post investigations.Two home care entities operated by Honor Health Network called Quality Healthcare and Quality Family Care in Brooklyn, NY, billed a staggering $396 million, according to government data for 2018 to 2024.Homebound senior and former Quality Healthcare client Serena Abekassis, 80, claimed to The Post care workers from that agency were substandard.“I’m very sick and I can’t get up.They didn’t change me or even take me to the toilet,” she recounted, in stories confirmed by two of her children.

“They took my bra, dresses, my food.“I don’t know where they picked these home care workers from.They were like homeless people from the street — incompetent and aggressive,” daughter Iris Abekassis told The Post.Son Ralph Abekassis claimed he found a liquor bottle next to a sleeping aide one afternoon and that he reported the behaviors to police, but they did nothing.“The people they were sending were very bad, low quality people who needed help themselves,” he said.Quality Healthcare did not respond to a reque...