AP report: Trump administration admits a glaring error (lied) in its New York health fraud accusations

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President Trump's administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York's Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in Democratic-led states.

___Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, claimed that New York's Medicaid program last year provided some 5 million people with personal care services, which assist people in need with basic activities like bathing, grooming and meal preparation. That would add up to nearly three-fourths of the state's 6.8 million Medicaid enrollees.

"That level of utilization is unheard of," Oz said in the video, adding in his post that New York needs to "come clean about its Medicaid program."

But the real number of New Yorkers who used those services last year was about 450,000, or between 6% and 7% of total enrollees, CMS spokesman Chris Krepich told the AP this week. He said the agency misidentified New York's approach to applying billing codes and had since refined its methodology.

"CMS is committed to ensuring its analyses fully reflect state-specific billing practices and will continue to work closely with New York to validate data and strengthen program integrity oversight," he said in an emailed statement.

Oz made other claims New York advocates say are inaccurate...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-report-trump-administration-admits-a-glaring-error-in-its-new-york-health-fraud-accusations

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