New York Daily News: ALBANY — The dead continued to live on state Medicaid rolls, costing taxpayers millions of dollars last year, a new audit out Tuesday revealed.
State Controller Thomas DiNapoli’s audit criticized the Health Department for doling out $2.3 million in Medicaid payments for 1,296 patients who had already died.
The payments to the dead were among $12.1 million in inappropriate Medicaid payments identified by DiNapoli’s auditors that were made during a six-month period that ended Sept. 30.
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