ALBANY, New York (WWNY) – North Country lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would go after Medicaid fraud in the state.
Republican state Senators Dan Stec and Mark Walczyk held a news conference in Albany earlier this week, highlighting a need for oversight in the state’s Medicaid system.
According to Stec, the state invests $120 billion in its Medicaid system, and between 2017 and 2024, the state Comptroller’s Office found a potential $2.6 billion in payments went to people no longer living in New York state.
Some reports indicate those numbers could be higher, at $20 billion annually.
Stec says his bill would call for routine eligibility checks and audits.
“When you have, potentially, hundreds and thousands of non-state residents, living elsewhere in the country, collecting on New York state’s health system, Medicaid system, that is absolutely inexcusable and it should have never…
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