North Carolina Sued Over Deaths of Children in Foster Care

 How many lawsuits need to be filed before the feds realize there needs to be intervention?

Children not only die in foster care due to horrific conditions and treatment, but children are also raped, tortured, drugged beyond functioning for purposes of higher billing rates, and nothing gets done because these data are not reported nor mandated to be collected.

This is just another example of Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare as the services mentioned in the lawsuit are Medicaid reimbursed.

Hiring more caseworkers will do absolutely nothing to prevent children being unnecessarily placed under the auspices of a state.

Billing systems have no internal controls to flag and refer suspicion of Medicaid fraud and there is no opportunity for caregivers, or the children to file complaints on these reportable conditions.

The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit ONLY handles elders.

Daniel Levinson needs to get off his ass and do something about this as it has been going on for far too long under his watch.

Lawsuit: DSS Doesn't Provide for Children's Basic Needs

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP, WLTX) - A federal lawsuit says South Carolina's embattled child welfare agency is endangering kids in its care by failing to provide them with basic health care and the right kind of attention.

The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court faults a shortage of foster homes and excessive caseloads for some of the shortcomings at the Department of Social Services.

The suit was filed by two advocacy groups on behalf of nearly a dozen children in the care of South Carolina's social services system.

A bipartisan Senate panel has been investigating the agency's problems for a year. Hearings focused on the deaths of several children, caseloads that climbed above 100 children for some workers and excessive turnover.

Governor Nikki Haley's office issued this response:

"Governor Haley believes that protecting South Carolina's most vulnerable citizens, our children, is the state's most important job. That's why the governor has been actively pursuing a new direction for the agency including hiring new case workers and human services specialists, enhanced training for those professionals and improving coordination with key stakeholders such as law enforcement, mental health and addiction professionals and families. We will continue to pursue reforms at DSS—knowing that our work will never be done protecting the children of South Carolina."

South Carollina Lawsuit Against Foster Care System

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