By: David Migoya | The Denver Gazette
Two regional Seventh-day Adventist conferences that oversee the activities of its member churches across several states have launched inquiries into an Aurora-based congregation tied to a Medicaid operation that exploited the homeless.
The Rocky Mountain Conference and the Central States Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist church — based in Denver and Kansas City, Kansas, respectively, and representing about 150 congregations in six states — said revelations that a newly created Aurora church was part of that enterprise were troubling.
A Denver Gazette investigation into “The Program” showed how the Maranatha Indonesian-American Seventh-day Adventist Church was connected to a home-health agency that over three years collected more than $24 million in Medicaid payments for allegedly providing services to dozens of homeless who were recruited to hire them.
The church’s involvement was providing $50 payments, dubbed “donations” by its payors, three times a week to each homeless person who allowed the agency, On Going Home Health Care, to administer prescription drugs they were given. The newspaper reported how many of the payments were made via electronic phone apps from people with ties to the church.
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