State regulators will be suspending a pair of long-term care facilities from New Jersey’s Medicaid program, citing poor care at the facilities and evidence of “massive Medicaid fraud” in several New York nursing homes under the same owners.
The Deptford Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare and the Hammonton Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare will be dropped from the state program on May 24, according to the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller.
Suspension from Medicaid payments typically forces a facility to be sold or closed. The announcement comes just weeks after the state suspended the Limecrest Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Andover.
Laurie Facciarossa Brewer, New Jersey’s long-term care ombudsman, discusses these developments with NJ Spotlight News.
