(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today announced the State has reached a $150,000 settlement with Hope Home Health Agency, Inc. and its owner, Miledy Marmol, resolving allegations that the agency’s billing practices violated the Connecticut False Claims Act. Specifically, an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found that HHHA billed Medicaid for services delivered by home health aides who lacked the requisite training, as well as for home health services delivered to clients without a treatment plan signed by the client’s physician.
HHHA stopped billing the Connecticut Medicaid program in November 2019 and closed its business shortly thereafter.
The Department of Public Health first notified HHHA of serious care deficiencies in December 2017. As a result of DPH’s inspection and survey findings, HHHA was required to arrange for a qualified independent trainer for its home health aides. Through a Consent Order between DPH and HHHA in August 2019, HHHA was required to employ an independent nurse consultant to monitor its operations. That independent nurse consultant subsequently reported that HHHA had not remedied its care deficiencies, continued to train its aides internally without involvement of a qualified independent trainer, and had assigned improperly trained aides to provide services in violation of DPH’s directive.
Those violations triggered additional investigation by the Office of the Attorney General, which determined...
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