DRUG TRAFFICKING: The federal government awarded $15 million to New York and New Jersey’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, a group of law enforcement agencies tasked with seizing illicit drugs and reducing crime tied to drug trafficking. The funding, administered by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, goes to efforts led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration and local law enforcement agencies to get illegal drugs off the street and reduce overdose deaths. The White House issued $276 million to the country’s 33 drug trafficking area programs on Thursday.
ELDER CARE: New York State Attorney General Letitia James reached a $10.1 million settlement Thursday with two health care companies serving older individuals for falsely billing the Medicaid program. Between 2012 and 2017 Riverdale-based home care administrator RiverSpring and Marble Hill-based health plan ElderServe Health billed Medicaid for services it never provided to members, an investigation by the attorney general found. The agreement returns more than $6 million to the state’s Medicaid program.
MOBILE HEALTH: New York-Presbyterian and national nonprofit March of Dimes launched a mobile health center for moms and babies in New York City on Wednesday, the organizations announced. The mobile center provides care to individuals directly in their communities regardless of insurance status, offering pregnancy and postpartum services as well as cervical cancer screenings. The 40-foot mobile center has two exam rooms, an intake area and a lab with refrigerators for specimens and medications. The unit is staffed by health care providers employed by New York-Presbyterian.
Amanda D'Ambrosio , 2024-05-24 11:33:05
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