News Station Investigation - Home Health Care Part 2

Last Edited: Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008, 10:21 PM CDT
Created: Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008, 9:14 PM CDT

News Station Investigation - Home Health Care Business

By Becky Oliver
FOX 4 News

Federal agents raided a Dallas home health care agency that FOX 4’s Becky Oliver has been investigating for six months. The feds won't give us any details about what they were looking for or what they found Tuesday, but FOX 4 cameras were there when agents with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General took over AG Total Care Home Health Services in North Dallas. Over the course of several hours we watched agents remove dozens of boxes of evidence.

For almost a year, former employees of AG Total Care complained to the state about what was going on there and the state did nothing. During our investigation, day after day FOX 4 watched home health care patients unloading truckloads of furniture, going out for barbeque, and running errands. The federal government pays for home health care services for patients who are “homebound,â€