SUNY Foundation to Pay $4 million to Settle Suit Over Doctored Medicaid Audits

An agency tied to the State University of New York has agreed to pay the federal government $3.75 million to settle claims that its employees doctored audits to hide the number of ineligible people receiving Medicaid benefits.

Federal prosecutors accused the Research Foundation of SUNY of falsifying its audits of how efficiently the state was running its Medicaid program between October 2007 and September 2008.