New York doled out $2.3M in Medicaid payments to dead people in past year

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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