The New York State Comptroller’s Office says New York’s Medicaid program paid more than $60,000 for sexual and erectile dysfunction treatments for sex offenders.
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the state bought the treatments for 47 sex offenders, according to an audit by his staff. Medicaid made a total of more than $930,000 in payments for ED drugs and treatments for people, including the sex offenders, who should have been barred under Medicaid’s own rules.
The Comptroller’s Office first identified this problem nearly 20 years ago. They found it again in 2005 and again this year, despite changes to state law and federal Medicaid rules made over the years since the problem was first identified.