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Jan. 12–All families, no matter how poor, can afford eyeglasses, County Executive Chris Collins said Tuesday as he mentioned eye care as one of the Medicaid offerings he would drop as an option in Erie County if he could.
Dental care is another such option Collins might drop, he said, as he suggested that New York’s county leaders be allowed to set the breadth of the Medicaid program that their taxpayers will help finance within their borders.
New York offers the most wide-ranging and expensive Medicaid menu of any state and offers all but two of the Medicaid options.

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Jan. 11–Otter’s proposed budget sets up a battle: Which of the state’s most vulnerable will lose programs they rely on
Gov. Butch Otter framed the first State of the State address of his second term around his belief that government has been asked to fill too many of the roles that families, communities and churches should be providing.
“I have to tell you that not only at the state level but at the federal level as well, those days are over,” Otter said Monday.

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Jan. 12–Erie County Executive Chris Collins on Tuesday pressed state lawmakers to help him deliver a 40 percent reduction in county property taxes by giving local governments control over Medicaid spending.
New York is one of only a handful of states that passes a share of its Medicaid burden to local governments and taxpayers, Collins’ office said in a news release, which adds that nearly every dime Erie County collects in property tax goes directly to New York State to pay for Medicaid services.
“The immediate and tangible results of this legislation are dramatic,” Collins said.

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Jan. 12–MADISON — Lawmakers Wednesday debated whether to order a sweeping audit of health programs for the poor — the second-largest expense for state taxpayers.
Now that Republicans control the Legislature following November’s election, they have the power to order the audit.
But expansions of the program by state officials and the effects of the struggling economy have also led Medicaid costs to balloon.

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Jan. 13–State health investigators disclosed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence of “fraud or willful misrepresentation” by an Eastern Shore drug treatment and mental health clinic, including overbilling and charging for the work of physicians who were not at the facility.
The inspector general of the state health department sent a letter Wednesday to Warwick Manor Behavioral Health Inc., near Cambridge, saying the state has suspended all Medicaid payments to the clinic.
Warwick Manor treats roughly 2,000 patients a year and billed the state’s Medicaid program $1.5 million last year.

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Jan. 12–Almost no state threw people out of its tax-funded Medicaid program last year, a new report found.
Ohio was among both groups.
A big reason: Billions in added federal aid to states were contingent on them not dropping Medicaid recipients, the annual survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found.

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