James Sheehan
Spitzer's Medicaid Inspector
Eliot Spitzer just nominated James G. Sheehan to serve as New York State Medicaid Inspector General.
Medicaid is the state's most expensive program, and Spitzer's effort to reduce the cost of the program led to a bruising budget fight with health care groups who engaged in a highly nasty exchange of negative ads against him.
From the governor's statement on Sheehan:"As a career prosecutor specializing in complex health care enforcement and recovery matters, Mr. Sheehan has experience rooting out fraud that dramatically drives up costs and severely threatens the efficiency and delivery of health care services."
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