Inside New York’s medical fraud capital where often empty senior centers bill Medicaid $100M-a-year for patients

Source: New York Post

The vibrant, east Asian immigrant enclave of Flushing may be New York’s medical fraud capital. A one-mile radius of the neighborhood boasts 77 Social Adult Daycares (SADCs), which bill Medicaid over $100 million a year, accounting for 14 percent of all daycare spending in the state, a Post investigation reveals. When The Post visited some of largest — which are private businesses that have claimed between $20 and 40 million from Medicaid over the last six years — many storefronts were shuttered, and those that were open had empty rooms with no patients.