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Published on Wed Apr 21, 2010

• Authorities arrested an HHA owner in Orange, N.J. on charges that his agency billed Medicaid for $5 million worth of Medicaid services that were never furnished or were authorized with forged physician signatures. Olasehmdeme "Isaac" Arowosaye of Be Kind Health Care Services Inc. "repeatedly submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid, including bills for patients who were deceased or in the hospital at the time he claimed to have provided them services in their hom s," Attorney General Paula Dow says in a release. The investigation began when the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General conducted an audit of Medicaid claims submitted by Be Kind and discovered numerous discrepancies. Be Kind billed for at least a dozen patients who were dead and at least 30 patients who were in the hospital when services were supposedly rendered.
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