Source: New York Post
WASHINGTON — A House committee has accused New York of flouting federal law by failing to identify “risk levels” of Medicaid service providers that could be defrauding the taxpayer-funded program, according to a new report. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been probing New York and nine other states for potential fraud in the distribution of Medicaid or Medicare funding and concluded in a Tuesday report that the Empire State was “not complying with federal law by designating provider risk levels” for some of its state-level programs. “New York’s counsel later disclosed to the Committee that it does not designate categorical risk levels of all Medicaid-only providers,” the 87-page report from the Republican-led panel found.
