The Trump administration sued New York officials for allegedly engaging in a Medicaid fraud scheme, the latest move in an ongoing federal attack against state health programs.
The Justice Department accused the New York State Department of Health and its officers of funneling “millions of dollars of extra revenue” to fellow defendant Public Partnerships LLC, a home caregiver company, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court. That scheme “continues to cause substantial harm to many thousands of vulnerable home-care Medicaid patients and caregivers,” the DOJ said in its complaint to the US District Court for the Eastern District …