New York Exposes Still More Medicaid Fraud

Last year, New York exposed more than a half a billion dollars in Medicaid fraud across the state. Doctors, pharmacies, and dentists all take advantage of the program through double billing and charging for services not rendered:

The Post reported yesterday that some scammers were continuing to collect payments long after patients had died.

Among the new findings:

* Sunnyside/GSSV Pharmacy, of Queens, filed 13 bogus claims for undispensed Medicaid-prescription refills and was banned from participating in Medicaid programs for five years and fined $26,000.

* Visionary Optics, of Jamaica, Queens, filed 16 false claims and was banned from the Medicaid program for five years and fined $32,000.

* Dentist Laurence Danziger of Stony Point, Rockland County, was banned from the Medicaid program for three years and fined $1 million following a 2005-2006 audit that found false and improper billings.

* Nearly all claims -- for about $1 million -- from the Pan American Medical Center in Midtown were rejected after a spot audit found that Medicaid was often double-billed for in- and outpatient services between Jan. 1, 2004, and Dec. 31, 2005.