The DD News Blog

On November 10, 2016, I wrote a blogpost on fraud and abuse  in the Medicaid-funded Personal Care Services program. Michigan's versio...

“Stunning” is the word that comes up most often to describe this week’s election.  The GOP has promised to repeal Obamacare with ...

This if from the PHI National Blog about a recently released report from Michigan. It is about the need to stabilize the workforce of Dir...

This is from an article in Disability Scoop by Michelle Diament, August 21, 2015: …A federal appeals court has upheld a rule requiring ...

From the PHI Chart Gallery PHI (Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute) issued a report in February 2015 showing how the home care work...

I have recently begun to follow a New York Times reporter, Paula Span , at The New York Times Blog “The New Old Age - Caring and Coping”...

Following a state audit of the Medicaid-funded Home Help Services Program in Michigan, the Michigan Department of Community Health has pro...

The Home Help Program audit conducted by the Michigan Office of the Auditor General looked at the criminal records of individual provider...

"I read audits so you don't have to."   Reading reports such as the " Performance Audit of the Medicaid Home Help Progra...

Michigan's Medicaid-funded Home Help Program that provides services to elderly and disabled people in their own homes is fraught with ...

An article in the Detroit News from March 10, 2014, "Mich.slaps health care union with 2nd largest elections fine ever", by Cha...

This is old news , but I think it is instructive to look back at the 2012 political campaign for Proposal 4, a ballot proposal to amend the ...

The Detroit Free Press held an on-line Web Chat on Proposal 4, Michigan's ballot initiative  on coll ective bargaining rights for Hom...

Proposal 4 is a controversial ballot proposal that takes a non-controversial Medicaid-funded service for people who need help to remain in...