{"id":164,"date":"2012-05-01T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-05-01T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:33:16","slug":"charity-shake-up-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/charity-shake-up-in-iowa.html","title":{"rendered":"Charity Shake Up in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Iowa has suspended payments to a taxpayer-funded Des  Moines charity that provides counseling for children and families.<\/p>\n<p>The  charity, A New Beginning, was the subject of a March 29 Des Moines  Register report that said the organization was the subject of  examinations by the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the U.S.  attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Iowa Department of Human  Services notified the charity\u2019s chief executive officer, Kenneth  Cameron, that it was suspending all Medicaid payments to A New Beginning  because of credible allegations that it was billing taxpayers for  services it never delivered. The notice indicates that the dollar value  at issue is the $226,000 the charity receives from Medicaid each year.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the USA is going though some tough times but it is sad to see people stooping so low as to commit fraud at charities, especially important ones like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20120501\/NEWS\/304300031\/-1\/AMES\/Iowa-halts-payments-Des-Moines-charity\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Iowa has suspended payments to a taxpayer-funded Des Moines charity that provides counseling for children and families. The charity, A New Beginning, was the subject of a March 29 Des Moines Register report that said the organization was the subject of examinations by the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charities","category-charity-news","category-donation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}