Albany Times Union
ALBANY — New York may have improperly paid $1.2 billion in Medicaid managed care payments for people who live out of state, according to a state comptroller’s audit released Tuesday.
States are not allowed to pay Medicaid for nonresidents under federal law. But the residencies of thousands of people may not have been thoroughly verified by the New York Department of Health, which manages and makes payments for New York’s Medicaid program, according to the audit…