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State, city to pay $540M over Medicaid billing
BY VALERIE BAUMAN The Associated Press

    The state and city of New York agreed Tuesday to pay a record $540 million to settle allegations they helped overbill the federal government for Medicaid services.
    Also, an unidentified speech therapist will receive $10 million from the settlement as the whistleblower who called attention to the state and city billing practices.
    Medicaid is a program providing health care to the poor, funded largely by the federal government but partly by state governments.
    The Justice Department began an investigation after the whistleblower filed two lawsuits alleging that the state submitted false claims for speech therapy services that didn’t qualify for reimbursement.
    The department looked into reimbursement claims for services provided to New York schoolchildren from 1990 to 2001.
    Under the settlement, New York state will pay about $440 million and New York City will pay $100 million. And the federal government will continue to monitor the state and city programs.
    The state has already paid about $108 million, while the rest will be paid in 10 installments of $33.1 million over more than five years.
    “We believe that this settlement requires payment of approximately $1 billion less than we could potentially have had to pay if the matter had gone to litigation,” Gov. David Paterson said.
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That's what happens with layers of government.....here's the thing....a load of jobs will be 'created' for fraud/help/complaints etc etc
and it will cost a fortune......

$540million is probably lower than the cost of the 'medicaid police'......check the contracts.......

SHOW ME THE MONEY TRAIL.....

'fraud' and the conversation thereof is more smoke up our butts........

fear/backward laws/moving by feelings, are how the power mongers move the sheeple......