ALBANY, NY (Home Care Wire) Home health agencies around the nation should watch what’s happening in New York as a sign of things to come.

After a high-profile crackdown on Medicaid aide fraud in New York City that netted many convictions and judgments for millions of dollars in restitution, the state subpoenaed 27 agencies in upstate New York, reports the Associated Press.

The state doesn’t accuse the 15 Syracuse-area agencies, seven Buffalo providers and five Rochester HHAs of wrongdoing, but says the industry needs closer supervision.

“The concept is right,” Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said about home care at a news conference. “We want to clean up the fraud.”

“Providers of quality home care services have an equal, if not greater, stake in curbing fraud and abuse because the misdeeds of a few rogue individuals have the potential to tarnish the entire home care community,” says Joanne Cunningham of the Home Care Association of New York State in a release. “HCA hopes that this broad-brush approach doesn’t impair the vast majority of agencies that are diligent and committed to providing quality home care to those most in need.”