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Whistleblowing: Texas Dep. of Aging Sued by Ex-Employee For Alleged Mismanagement of Home Health Information

A recently fired employee of the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the state agency for allegedly mismanaging information submitted by home health care agencies.

ABC outlines the suit:

Cramptom claims information changes submitted by home health care agencies were not updated in records kept by DADS.

“Address changes, administrative changes, service area changes, hours of operation. Changes were not made,” Crampton said, claiming that the agencies could be the ones to suffer the fallout.

“They could be fined,” she said. “They could be even shut down.”

The suit alleges that the state stopped requesting resumes for management changes in September 2015.

That meant “DADS could no longer verify whether management personnel at home health agencies met the statutory requirements for their positions,” the suit reads.

“There were several of them that I caught that their RN number had expired,” Crampton said. “Or they didn’t have an RN number to practice medicine in the state of Texas.”

Also in the suit, Crampton accuses the state of not properly sending out license renewal notices to home health agencies.

The suit alleges when those providers would complain to DADS, a supervisor “would falsify and backdate a renewal letter, then charge the agency a late fee.”

Crampton says she took her concerns to her supervisors multiple times before she was fired.

“I wasn’t getting any response. I was told to mind my business. I wasn’t a manager,” she said.

A spokesman for DADS confirmed the agency’s receipt of the lawsuit, but has declined to comment further.

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