The state ended its partnership with a company providing services for more than 100 Idahoans with developmental disabilities after seven years of what the state calls fraudulent claims, incomplete paperwork and other improper billing for reimbursement from taxpayer funding.

In mid-September, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare terminated the Medicaid Provider Agreement for Meridian-based Inclusions, Inc. following years of audits and letters informing the company of wrongdoing going back to 2014. This means the 138 people using Medicaid waivers to pay for supportive services from Inclusions like in-home care, supervised employment programs, mental health counseling and specialized nursing had to go elsewhere for their services.

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Company could be barred from Medicaid funding for five years

Inclusions’ website is no longer active and it is marked ‘permanently closed’ on Google. A call to the company for comment was not returned. In addition to the main office in Meridian, Inclusion also had locations in Sandpoint, Coeur d’Alene and Twin Falls.

DHW spokesperson Niki Forbing-Orr told BoiseDev that all of the impacted customers were able to be placed with new service providers.

“The department has issued multiple communications to participants receiving services from Inclusions, their guardians, and their targeted service coordinators regarding the termination,” she wrote last...

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