Report: N.Y. Medicaid Rife With Fraud
Posted on: Monday, 18 July 2005, 12:01 CDT
New York has the most expensive Medicaid program in the United States, and it is rife with fraud and corruption, the New York Times said Monday.
The state spends $44.5 billion each year, which is somehow more than California and covers 55 percent more people.
An investigation by the newspaper identified one dentist in Brooklyn who claimed to have treated as many as 991 patients in one day and a van transportation service for the disabled that transported healthy people on Medicaid's bill.
It also reported one Buffalo school official who sent 4,434 students into speech therapy in a single day without talking to them or reviewing their records. One nursing home operator took in $1.5 million in salary and profit in the same year he was fined for neglecting the home's residents.
It's like a honey pot, said John Meekins, a former senior Medicaid fraud prosecutor in Albany, who said he grew disillusioned before he retired in 2003.
Source: United Press International
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