Pubdate: Tue, 03 Oct 2006
Source: New York Times (NY)
Section: The City; In The Region
Copyright: 2006 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Author: Ray Rivera

QUEENS: NO CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR CLINIC

The state attorney general's office said yesterday that it would not 
file criminal charges against a Queens drug abuse clinic accused by 
state regulators of defrauding the state's Medicaid program of 
millions of dollars. Officials with the attorney general's office 
said that after a long investigation of the clinic, Community Related 
Services Inc., they could not prove that clinic officials had 
intended to cheat the government. On Sunday, the state Medicaid 
inspector general's office and the Office of Alcoholism and Substance 
Abuse Services announced a $16.5 million fine against the company and 
issued 25 findings of "serious Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse." 
Efforts to obtain a working phone number were unsuccessful.
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