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In a federal survey of 201 hospitals in the state of New York, private hospitals received an average of $933 per day from Medicaid for providing inpatient hospital services. Did the surveyed government hospitals receive more or less than this?

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The survey found that state government hospitals received an average of $1,140 per day, and local government hospitals received an average of $1,514 per day, with one such hospital receiving $9,176 per day. Per the report, the federal agency that manages Medicaid "does not have a standard policy delineating criteria for when payments made to individual providers are economical or efficient, nor does it have a process to identify payments to individual providers that appear questionable."

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