December 19, 2008
New York Governor David Paterson and State Medicaid Inspector General James Sheehan announced that the state recovered $551 million in funds lost to Medicaid fraud and abuse.
The federal government requires states to root out Medicaid abuses, and New York had agreed to find $215 million of wrongdoing, but in fact recovered more than twice the targeted amount. Last year, all 50 states recovered a combined $305 million, the governor said.