Over the last four years, the State Comptroller’s Office has helped recover $73 million in improper Medicaid payments to New Jersey doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers.
Some of it involved legitimate billing errors uncovered in audits. Some of it was outright fraud. And some of it was found because of providers simply being honest.
More than $7.9 million in improper Medicaid payments was reported by 70 providers to the State Comptroller’s Office from 2019 to 2023, officials announced this week.
It represented about 11% of all recoveries from the government health insurance program for low-income residents — often a prime target of fraud.
Source: Millions of NJ Medicaid dollars were misspent. How much did honest doctors return? / NorthJersey.com