Upstate home health care faces questions

BUFFALO -Twenty-seven upstate home health care agencies face questions from the state about aides who provide services paid for by Medicaid.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said a round of subpoenas sent by his office this week are part of a widening Medicaid probe that began with reports of fraud downstate last year.

The investigation has so far led to charges against more than 80 patients, aides, nurses, instructors and administrators of home health agencies, 50 convictions and judgments to pay more than $14 million in restitution, the attorney general said.