A New York Focus review of lawsuits against Leading Edge show it has a record of backing out of paying for covered health procedures — and trying to leave patients with the bill. / Photo: c-George / Getty Images | Illustration: Leor Stylar
Since April, tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been forced to pay for health insurance that doesn’t cover basic medical care.
New York’s popular state-funded home care program for the elderly and disabled was taken over that month by the company Public Partnerships, LLC, which automatically enrolled all of its new employees in the New York City area in a bare-bones health plan that is funded through deductions from their salaries but doesn’t cover many essential services, like hospital stays or specialist doctors…