Op-ed | Leveraging technology to reduce non-emergency medical transportation fraud
An op-ed discusses the potential for using technology to combat fraud within the non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) system in New York. NEMT services are essential for Medicaid enrollees requiring routine medical care.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers with medical needs, such as dialysis patients, wheelchair users, and post-surgical patients, use non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) services to get to their medical appointments. NEMT is part of our health care system and is administered through Medicaid to ensure enrollees of that program have access to routine and life-sustaining...
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