Audits conducted by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli show that New York State has lost nearly $100 million in billing errors and waste in Medicaid.
Among the mistakes auditors discovered was nearly $3 million in overpayments, including payments for services such as tooth cleaning for toothless patients.
Another audit found the state Department of Health spent $28 million on Medicaid payments for residents of other states.
(Source: NY1)
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When oh when will we learn that the only thing the government can do is “provide for the common defense and ensure domestic tranquility”. That means the military, law enforcement, intelligence, and public health and safety with the public health and safety to be kept to the appropriate minimum standard so as not to encourage the growth of government and therefore a possible tyrannical rule.
And if you think Medicaid is bad, wait for Obamacare. Did anyone watch Senator Jim DeMint on C-Span confronting the Senator Pro Temp over the language on page #1000 concerning the ability in the future for amendments or any other type of legislative action to revoke the harm of Obamacare? I let everyone use their imagination and figure it out on their own.
That there is waste in a multibillion dollar program is regrettable but not news. Why is “public health and safety” to be kept to the “appropriate minimum standard” when the military, law enforcement, and intelligence functions are not?
There are regular reports of billion dollar overruns on military programs. You think Medicaid is unique?
Tooth cleaning for toothless patients is not “billing errors and waste:” it is fraud.
Maybe the fee based system is to blame more than government supported healthcare.
We give tax refunds to people who don’t pay taxes, why not pay for tooth cleanings for those without teeth. Sounds like sound beuruacratic thinking to me.
Oh, only 100 million in waste? Why didnt they find it the day the incompetents were wasting the money. And to think how hard it is to get a job at Medcaid…..so many people dont know what they are doing. The work ethic, along with competency, is mostly gone. BUT…people in such environments are certainly loaded up on attitude.
Because Shlomo2, I quoted the U.S. Constitution. The Founders were very clear about the growth of government so that there wouldn’t be this large bureaucracy demanding more and more of our taxes dollars. When you limit government, the demands on the individual taxpayers are limited too. You are right about cost overruns but if the government is limited, it is much easier for you and I to catch it and then you the links of representative government to stop the overruns.
But, apparently you don’t understand that YOU are paying for all of the bureaucracy. The bigger the bureaucracy, the more it demands. But, you don’t seem to want to understand that.
Are you suggesting that the government should offer healthcare and use the rationing system that is being proposed in the current legislation in the Senate?