New York’s runaway $115B Medicaid gravy train needs oversight in light of Minnesota fraud, critics charge

After billions in Medicaid money was stolen by fraudsters in Minnesota, all eyes are on New York — where spending on health ...
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Health Department Handing Out $75 For Your Urine in Poughkeepsie

The State of New York wants to pay you for a sample of your urine. And yes, you read that right.
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Construction underway for $1.7 billion public health laboratory

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced construction is officially underway for the planned $1.7 billion state-of-the-art public health ...
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New York scales back health insurance program for low-income residents

New York state will end its Essential Plan health insurance program, which covers 1.7 million low- and middle-income New Yorkers, due to a loss of $7.5 billion in federal funding. The change, which is ...
New York Post

Notoriously fraudulent NY health program lost $1.2 billion to scammers and middlemen: ‘Minnesota multiplied by 10’

Taking advantage of a generous New York state program to aid his ailing mother, Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as her caregivers. Over six years, they were paid $348,000 to ...
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New Brooklyn Program Centralizes Care For Violence Survivors

NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in East Flatbush launches Kings CARES, a new program providing centralized medical, forensic and social support for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.