Germany’s largest private nursing home operator Alloheim is accused of having incorrectly billed nursing staff to nursing care funds on a large scale. And this is partly at the expense of those in need of care. Report that star and RTL, citing internal company documents.
A spokeswoman for AOK Rheinland/Hamburg confirmed that the fund is currently examining the matter.
Did Alloheim plan too few nursing staff for months?
Specifically, the question is whether the “Alloheim Senior Residences”, as the company calls itself, has scheduled too few staff in almost half of its around 300 homes nationwide – and this for months.
From company documents star and RTL, at least it can be deduced: that apparently around 430 nursing staff in an average of 130 homes were billed to the health insurance companies over a period of months, even though they were not even on duty. This is in the period from January 2024 to April 2025 inclusive, i.e. over 16 months.
This raises the question of whether Alloheim has put the health of people in need of care at risk – and also for profit. If the suspicion turns out to be true, Alloheim could face repayments in the millions, among other things.
Alloheim, on the other hand, pointed out at the request of star and RTL rejects the accusation that the operator knowingly billed more employees than it employed. The company says: “Councils do not finance more personnel costs for the Alloheim Group than are actually spent by our company.” There was no evidence that there was an actual understaffing of 430 full-time employees compared to the key refinanced by the nursing care funds.
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Alloheim has 28,000 nursing places
The Alloheim Senior Residences group, based in Düsseldorf, is the largest private nursing home operator in Germany: It operates around 300 homes nationwide and has around 24,000 employees and 28,000 care places. Since the end of 2017, it has belonged to the Swedish company Nordic Capital, a private equity company.
Alloheim has been criticized for years because of the conditions in homes. ““Team Wallraff” had reported on degrading treatment in several facilities in recent years. The company rejected the alleged “distorted representation” in each case, saying that these were “individual exceptional cases” and “individual human errors”.
The entire research team: Nicolas Büchse, Ingrid Eißele, Sabine Greul, Lisa Jansen, Caterina Sack, Alexander Römer, Günter Wallraff
Coordination: Olaf Schirmeyer, Marc Neller
Verification: Michael Lehmann-Morgenthal, Christian Schwan
More on the topic of care: On October 16th At 8:15 p.m. RTL will show the documentary “The Bad Business of Care,” which you can then watch on stern.de and RTL+. Transparency note: The star is part of RTL Germany.
Source: Stern
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