{"id":314000,"date":"2026-08-05T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:38:15","slug":"proof-new-yorks-leaders-are-basically-aiding-and-abetting-medicaid-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314000\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof New York’s leaders are basically aiding and abetting Medicaid fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter how much public shaming they receive, New York politicians not only refuse to crack down on massive Medicaid fraud, they seem eager to cover it up.<\/p>\n

Consider The Post\u2019s recent visits to adult day-care centers in Flushing.<\/p>\n

In January, The Post exposed numerous centers<\/a> sucking up Medicaid dollars while providing little, if any, of the services the cash is supposed to pay for.<\/p>\n

Trump Medicaid czar Mehmet Oz then visited centers in Flushing <\/a>and posted videos showing the ludicrous number of them in close proximity.<\/p>\n

On just one block alone, he pointed to \u201chundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits being made from Social Adult Daycare Centers,\u201d a k a SADCs.<\/p>\n

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Team Trump even threatened<\/a> to hold up federal payments to the state over potential fraud.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite all the heat, when The Post\u2019s Chadwick Moore visited those centers last week<\/a>, he found little changed.<\/p>\n

Many of the 77 centers clustered in a mere one-mile radius were shuttered or lacked patients, much as The Post found six months earlier \u2014 no real change, despite knowing the feds are watching.<\/p>\n

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How much fraud are we looking at here?<\/p>\n

Well, Flushing\u2019s SADCs alone billed a whopping $733 million for Medicaid services from 2018 to 2024.<\/p>\n

Livingwell Day Care, for one, billed $27 million for 26,500 patients, per federal data.<\/p>\n

Yet Moore found lights there dimmed and empty tables in a mess hall; no sign of any seniors.<\/p>\n

At Bao Kang Adult Day Care, all common areas were likewise empty, though a worker claimed she serves up 200 people a day.<\/p>\n

In 2018-\u201924,\u00a0Bao Kang billed Medicaid $32 million for 43,900 patients.<\/p>\n

Neither center has been officially charged with fraud.<\/p>\n

Medicaid-supported SADCs are supposed to serve only patients who suffer from a chronic illness or disability, yet many of these Flushing facilities plainly have nothing beyond what regular senior centers offer. <\/p>\n

Oz blasted \u201ca lack of proper state oversight\u201d as these \u201ccenters have become cash cows for criminal syndicates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, state pols \u2014 e.g., Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, state Sen. John Liu (who represents the area) \u2014 are doing their darnedest to hide the fraud.<\/p>\n

Moore had to get Medicaid billing info from the feds because New York won\u2019t release it publicly.<\/p>\n

Liu tries to deny anything at all is amiss: \u201cIt would be misguided to . . . paint Flushing as the epicenter of\u00a0this kind of fraud, if it exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it exists? <\/p>\n

Who are they trying to protect? Don\u2019t they care about the taxpayers footing the\u00a0bill<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Because the feds pick up over half the Medicaid tab, New York pols think it\u2019s free money: The more that\u2019s billed (even via fraud), the more cash flowing to the Empire State.<\/p>\n

Except it\u2019s flowing to criminals, and comes from taxpayers federal and state.<\/p>\n

Apparently, most of New York\u2019s leaders see the criminal class as their natural allies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter how much public shaming they receive, New York politicians not only refuse to crack down on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[304,6712,648,396,19777,2069,426,398,7050,9,24,55,54,56,299,2956,985],"class_list":["post-314000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-editorial","tag-federal-government","tag-flushing","tag-fraud","tag-government-spending","tag-john-liu","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-letitia-james","tag-medicaid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-senior-citizens","tag-taxpayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}