State Medicaid inspector general James Sheehan yesterday gave Westchester County more than $61,000 from money recovered through the Medicaid Antifraud Demonstration Program.
The money is part of $3.4 million the state agency recovered after an audit of more than 40 health-care providers in Westchester County. It is the first of several payments the county will recieve, after upstart costs and the federal government are repaid, Sheehan said.
In 2006, the state and New York State Association of Counties launched the auditing program to weed out waste and abuse of Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled.
