New York gets caught double-billing Medicaid

Published March 12, 2014 12:00am ET



New York made away with $320 million from the federal government by over-billing Medicaid, according to a new watchdog report.

According to the inspector general for the Health and Human Services Department, state-operated residences billed the federal government at twice the rate charged by privately operated residences offering the same “habilitation services” in 2010.

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