NY Auditors Find Medicaid Payments For Dead Patients
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York auditors say the state's Medicaid system made up to $12.1 million in inappropriate payments last year, including $2.3 million in managed care payments for dead patients.
Auditors say other payments went for recipients dropped from long-term care coverage.
About $2.1 million was recovered during the auditors' field work.
The state health department says it's pursuing other overpayments.
Medicaid spending for more than 6 million low-income New Yorkers this year is expected to exceed $63 billion, half of it federally funded.
According to the audit report, claims are processed and paid weekly, averaging about 7 million claims and more than $1 billion in payments to providers.
Auditors say they identified 119 dead people enrolled in Medicaid and 1,177 enrollees who died and weren't automatically removed.
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