{"id":5205,"date":"2011-12-14T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2011-12-15T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T13:50:41","slug":"morning-read-are-non-profits-that-help-disabled-bilking-ny-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/14\/morning-read-are-non-profits-that-help-disabled-bilking-ny-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Are non-profits that help disabled bilking NY taxpayers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/14\/nyregion\/caring-for-disabled-at-home-nonprofits-swim-in-new-york-state-money.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;hp\">The New York Times is running a major expose this morning<\/a> that suggests that some non-profits in New York state are running up huge budgets thanks to state Medicaid payments, paying staff-members low wages but charging the state big bucks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For their work, which requires no special credentials, the employees typically earn $10 to $15 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>But when the nonprofit organizations that employ those workers bill the  state, they collect three and four times that amount \u2014 with some having  received as much as $67 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Spending on this little-known home care program, called Community Habilitation,  has soared in recent years, creating multimillion-dollar surpluses at  some nonprofit agencies and eye-popping salaries and benefits for those  who run them.<\/p>\n<p>And it helps explain how New York\u2019s costs of caring for developmentally  disabled people have ballooned in recent years, creating the nation\u2019s  most generous system of Medicaid-financed programs, with little scrutiny of its efficiency or results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Soaring Medicaid costs have emerged as a major concern for local governments in the North Country.\u00a0 The issue of care for the disabled has also been an issue because of scandals at the Sunmount facility in Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/14\/nyregion\/caring-for-disabled-at-home-nonprofits-swim-in-new-york-state-money.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;hp\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is running a major expose this morning that suggests that some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4872,4803,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}