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My youngest, my Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kid has been in speech therapy from diagnosis. Since 02 it's only been in school. As he's on SSI and Medicaid the school can bill Medicaid for this speech therapy. Just when I thought I'd heard and seen it all.... two men show up at my door today. They're "financial investigators" from the Medicaid Investigations Unit of the state Attorney General's office.... aka guys who look for Medicaid fraud. They are investigating my son. LOL. Now I know he has not used Medicaid any more than a physical and dental checkups so I'm not worried. They're accusing the SD of Medicaid fraud! They want to know if he got speech therapy every week as he should have. They want to know if I have a log or other record of when he got this therapy! I assure them that I am clueless, always the last to know. So they're going to call back next week and see if I can dig up anything like quarterly progress reports (the only thing I stand a chance of having). They sure are desperate for something from me. But they're only interested in the 05/06 school yr.
So I call his current teacher. She says she can't talk about it but "all compensatory therapy" was done a long time ago and they thought this was over. Also, that my son was never involved in this. I explained that it's not an educational/ IEP/ IDEA issue, it's Medicaid fraud! She reminded me that one of the 2 speech therapists at that school quit last yr and they had "temp" speech therapist for the rest of the school yr... like 6 mo.
They're at my door because all the SD gave them was my name and address, No phone numbers!
Now keep in mind that this is 2 in the afternoon and I'm in the long underwear I slept in last night with an armful of laundry when I answer the door. I was actually thinking it was the fire dept since there was a ridiculous amt of smoke coming from my apt as I gave up trying to clean my oven and was just letting whatever grease was on the bottom burn off so I could cook at turkey. I'm not TOO embarrassed... NOT! So I excuse myself to throw on a robe to spend a half hour outside of my smokey apt in the cold talking to these poor guys. Guess I looked like I was a Medicaid recipient who is not employed anyway... good to be when Medicaid fraud people show up at your house. LOL
Just when I thought I'd heard it all! Medicaid fraud by my SD! LOL
So I call his current teacher. She says she can't talk about it but "all compensatory therapy" was done a long time ago and they thought this was over. Also, that my son was never involved in this. I explained that it's not an educational/ IEP/ IDEA issue, it's Medicaid fraud! She reminded me that one of the 2 speech therapists at that school quit last yr and they had "temp" speech therapist for the rest of the school yr... like 6 mo.
They're at my door because all the SD gave them was my name and address, No phone numbers!
Now keep in mind that this is 2 in the afternoon and I'm in the long underwear I slept in last night with an armful of laundry when I answer the door. I was actually thinking it was the fire dept since there was a ridiculous amt of smoke coming from my apt as I gave up trying to clean my oven and was just letting whatever grease was on the bottom burn off so I could cook at turkey. I'm not TOO embarrassed... NOT! So I excuse myself to throw on a robe to spend a half hour outside of my smokey apt in the cold talking to these poor guys. Guess I looked like I was a Medicaid recipient who is not employed anyway... good to be when Medicaid fraud people show up at your house. LOL
Just when I thought I'd heard it all! Medicaid fraud by my SD! LOL