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Whistle-blowers who report Medicaid fraud would be rewarded by New York state with a share of the money they helped recover under a proposal to be introduced this year.
It's just one of a slew of measures intended to hack away at a Medicaid program critics and studies show is riddled by fraud and waste.
The 2005-2006 budget enacted an estimated 1.4 billions dollars in Medicaid savings and more proposals are expected this year to build on that momentum.
Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for the poor, currently costs 44.5 billion annually in New York, making it the most expensive in the nation.
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer also is seeking to strengthen the definition of stealing from Medicaid to simplify prosecution of fraud cases.
The implementation of a Preferred Drug List this summer, meanwhile, is expected to save 200 million dollars in its first year by asking makers of certain types of drugs to provide the state with heavy rebates.
Additional plans for reforms would be detailed in Governor Pataki's upcoming budget