NY moves to answer Medicaid fraud charges

Responding to a series of critical articles in The New York Times outlining problems with New York's Medicaid program, Gov. George Pataki yesterday ordered a broad overhaul of state agencies responsible for monitoring the program. Pataki issued an executive order creating a new independent inspector general's office to oversee the program and brought in a formal federal prosecutor to investigate the scandal. Also rumored to be contemplating action is the reportedly highly annoyed New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whose office is responsible for overseeing fraud in the state.

- see this story from The New York Times

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