Meet the Company Reaping Big Bucks from N.Y.'s Budget-Busting Medicaid Surge

Alessandra Biaggi

Originally published in The CITY

We should absolutely make sure that the [state] Department of Health is not overpaying on any contracts before they’re cutting any [Medicaid] services,” State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi (D-The Bronx) told THE CITY.

How are you ensuring that they are not abusing their contract with New York State and that their profits are actually reasonable, considering how much we’re paying them in a year where we have a $6 billion [state budget] deficit?” Biaggi asked.