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State regulators have reinstated some payments to the Borrego Community Health Foundation but will continue withholding millions of dollars in billings for dental visits that are at the center of an ongoing criminal investigation led by the FBI.
According to an agreement released by the California Department of Health Care Services, almost $10 million in Medi-Cal reimbursements will be returned to the healthcare provider known as Borrego Health. The foundation also will be paid for medical services provided going forward.
But state officials will continue to retain all payments related to dental services some $15.6 million since Medi-Cal reimbursements were suspended in November.
Debate over possible sale of Cumberland County’s nursing home remains hot as foes renew call for pause
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
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The battle over whether Cumberland County commissioners should sell the Claremont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center doesn’t seem to be cooling down at all.
That was evident Monday morning when the commissioners again heard multiple pleas to call off the sale investigation indefinitely, or at least defer it until the COVID-19 pandemic passes.
Those requests came during a meeting during at county officials cited the county-owned nursing home’s financial losses and ongoing difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff. The highlighted a nearly $1 million decline in the home’s find balance over the past year. The possibility that federal authorities will require $500,000 to $900,000 in fire safety to be made at the facility also was mentioned.
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After years of working for other people, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells wanted to run his own company, be his own boss.
So when Bruce Hebets, the late CEO of the Borrego Community Health Foundation, offered Wells a job as staff psychologist at the nonprofit healthcare provider five years ago, the mayor had a different idea.
Instead of working directly for the foundation known as Borrego Health, Wells said, he would form his own corporation and provide mental health treatment under a contract with the Borrego Health.
“I had always had a job,” he said. “I wasn’t interested in doing that anymore and I told (Hebets) that. I wanted to start my own business.”