United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

JACKPOT! Gaming the Home Health Care System

July 28, 1997


The committee will seek to examine the: 1) depth of fraud in the home health care system; 2) schemes used to defraud the health care system; 3) deficiencies in the current home health care systems and potential solutions available. The committee will look for ways to reduce the amount of fraud in home health and for ways to get citizens involved in identifying and deterring fraud, waste, and abuse in health care.


Date: July 28, 1997
Time: 1:00 pm
Room: 562 Dirksen


Statements of Committee Members

  1. Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman, Iowa
  2. Senator John Breaux, Ranking Member, Louisiana

Witness Testimony Panel 1
  1. Jeanette Garrison, convicted home health felon, Augusta, GA

Witness Testimony Panel 2
  1. George Grob, Deputy Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, Washington, DC (no written statement available)
  2. Leslie Aronovitz, Manager, U.S. General Accounting Office, Chicago, IL (no written statement available

Witness Testimony Panel 3
  1. Mary Ellis, Vice-President, Wellmark, Inc., Des Moines, IA
  2. Bobby Jindal, Secretary, Louisianna Department of Health and Hospitals, Baton Rouge, LA (no written statement available)
Hearing Publications
  • Committee on Aging Print: 105-08