Blatant Medicaid fraud in Queens that AG Letitia James can’t bother to notice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, puts out that within a one-mile radius in the Queens neighborhood, a full 64 Social Adult Day Care centers operate, with thousands upon thousands of supposed elderly enrollees.
54% : Flushing’s Medicaid-eligible senior population grew by 20% from 2018 to 2024, yet the number of seniors billed by social adult daycares surged by 390%.
52% : Plainly, state Attorney General Tish James and other top officials just don’t care; they see it as free money (no matter how much goes to fraudsters), as government-funded personal assistance has become the state’s fastest-growing industry — jumping from $2.5 billion in 2019 to $12 billion in 2026.
45% : For fresh proof of how little New York authorities care about social-services fraud, consider the curious case of adult daycares in Flushing.
44% : Under James’ “leadership,” New York ranks 49th among the states for criminal investigations per billion of Medicaid dollars spent.

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