Written by Adam Bermudez
New York State’s Medicaid program,among the nation’s most expensive, may cost a little less than the projected $55.6 billion price ticket to taxpayers this year, as $851 million dollars was recovered after the state investigation’s audit.
Medicaid Inspector General James Cox. Photo c/o New York State Office of the
Medicaid Inspector General.
“This is an extraordinary accomplishment, and a historical achievement,” New York Medicaid Inspector General James Cox told the New York Daily News.
As the Daily News reports,
“More than half of that money recouped — $496 million — came after the state’s Medicaid settled a longstanding dispute with the federal government in October over home health services that should have been billed to the federal Medicare program.
Read more at the Daily News here.
$468 million was recovered by New York in 2012.
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