New York health officials are taking steps to limit the issuance of multiple Medicaid identification numbers in response to a New York Office of State Comptroller’s (OSC) audit that found that the state overpaid about $17.3 million in Medicaid benefit payments resulting from recipients enrolled with multiple IDs.

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