00:00What's going on with Medicaid in New York?
00:02The Post has learned the Department of Justice is planning to sue New York Governor Kathy Hochul's administration
00:07over what it believes to be a rigged revamping of the state's Medicaid program, a.k.a. fraud.
00:12The official filing could come at any time and is said to be aimed at the $11 billion program's overhaul,
00:18in particular, alleged bid rigging and noncompliance with Medicaid billing rules.
00:22Now, Hochul spearheaded the changes ironically because of fraud allegations surrounding home health aides.
00:28But the crux of the allegations here surround the company hired by the state to employ these aides,
00:35Public Partnerships LLC, and the bidding process that the state went through to grant them a $1 billion contract.
00:40Damning emails unearthed this week appear to show that officials in the New York Department of Health
00:44and in Hochul's office were hashing out details of this deal with the company
00:48two weeks before signing off on the bidding process.
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