The Office of the State Comptroller released an audit that shows a New Jersey mental health provider improperly billed and was paid more than $1.7 million in Medicaid funds. OSC is seeking repayment in full from Sokkyun Yi, a Princeton-based licensed social worker who provides intensive in-community mental health services in New Jersey. As part of its oversight of the New Jersey Medicaid program, OSC’s Medicaid Fraud Division conducted an audit of Medicaid claims submitted by and paid to Sokkyun Yi for the period from September 21, 2016 through March 2, 2020 for services provided by Yi and others with whom Yi contracts. Yi does business under the name Family First Counseling Services. OSC’s audit found that more than half (54 percent) of the 963 claims reviewed contained deficiencies.
