State Overcharged $10M For Medicaid Services Never Provided
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New York state paid nearly $10 million in Medicaid claims for home care and other services that were never provided, according to a state comptroller’s audit.
Two audits, conducted between 2001 and 2006, found that reimbursement claims listed services provided to hospitalized or deceased patients. The audits attributed the errors to a flawed system the state uses to catch such faulty claims.
In eight cases, Medicaid paid nearly $14,000 for home care services after the patient had died, auditors found.
“These claims should never have been paid,” Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a statement.
In New York, Medicaid spending is among the highest in the country, accounting for $40 billion annually.
