County faces costly Medicaid audit

AUBURN - The Cayuga County Mental Health Department is facing possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in chargebacks from the state as a result of an ongoing Medicaid audit.

The audit, being conducted by the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, is not complete but county officials are speculating that the county will have to pay a large sum of money from its fund balance.

Legislator Francis Mitchell, R-Genoa, said at last week's Community Services Board meeting that he wouldn't be surprised if the county had to repay the state $2 million.