Secretary Mitch Roob laid out changes to strengthen a system that helps track home care providers. This system will help with focusing on compassion and responsibility.
“The reforms come as the state continues to review suspected fraud, most of which appears to involve providers rather than individual recipients.”
Secretary Roob added that oversight remains difficult because providers operate statewide, but enforcement is being increased as investigations continue.
Audits from the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration found nearly $198 million in improper payments across five home care providers between 2022 and 2025. Leaders also pointed to a major spending spike of more than $150 million in a single year, which triggered deeper review of the program.
Secretary Roob said, “These audits reveal not just mistakes, but a wholesale abandonment of the rules that protect vulnerable Hoosiers.” He also said providers failing to complete required background checks while still billing for care showed “a reckless disregard for safety and an abuse of trust.”
The state has halted program advertising, expanded eligibility checks, and reduced enrollment by about 400 participants. Beginning in 2027, Indiana will add prepayment reviews to stop improper claims before money is paid, along with continued audits and stronger oversight of high risk providers.
Secretary Roob said the goal is to protect both taxpayers and vulnerable residents while restoring trust in the system.
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Whenever big money is flung around by a government, there is ALWAYS going to be some level of fraud. That’s why our founders created a government of limited and very well defined spending powers. There was no central bank to create ersatz money to fling about for favors or votes. P:us states were GUARANTEED by the US Constitution to have a republican form of government.
I remember reading history about certain how congressional supporters were trying to create a pension paid out of the general treasury to support an Admiral’s widow back in the 1800s. It was shot down with a simple statement by a representative opposed, “I cant lay my finger on the part of the Constitution that says we can spend from the treasury for charity.”
Now look at the hoards we have put on the charity list to be paid out of the treasury with NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.
It’s not just the providers , it’s the no good people too.