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Last October, Famous Ray’s Pizza on West 11th Street in the Village shuttered after being sued for using the name “Famous Ray’s Pizza” by USA Famous Original Ray’s Licensing Corp., a rival group that owns various Ray’s pizza joints throughout the city. A sign on the pizzeria’s front window attributed the closing to a spike in rent saying, “rent too high, lost lease,” but the dispute over the name shadowed the whole affair. Now, Famous Ray’s Pizza is reopening under a new name: Famous Roio’s Pizza. The grand opening is today.
Back in 1976, not knowing that he would eventually have to rename his pizza parlor, Famous Ray’s Pizza owner Mario DiRienzo explained why his pizza parlor was called Ray’s to The New Yorker (accessed via the New York Times):
It’s a small town I come from. Although I am a Mario, in Roio I am also a Ray. The name Ray is a nickname for the family name of Di Rienzo. Every family has a nickname in my town. Someone asks, ‘Did you see Mario?’ and there are so many Marios in town you have to ask ‘Which Mario?’, so the answer is Mario Ray. And so my restaurant became The Famous Ray’s Pizza. If it were The Famous Mario’s, you would have to ask ‘Which Mario?
Famous Roio’s Pizza, a name that derives from DiRienzo’s hometown, Roio del Sangro, a small village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, should be a pretty safe bet and put the whole issue to rest. After all, there can’t be as many pizzeria owners from Roio as there are ones nicknamed Ray. Thanks to Gothamist, we remembered the classic Seinfeld episode about the proliferation of Ray’s pizzerias.
Federal authorities say they’ve uncovered a long-running Medicaid scam that extracted millions in fraudulent gains, and was run by…New York City.
A civil fraud lawsuit announced on Monday alleges that the city, through its Medicaid biller, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), used a sophisticated scheme of computerized fraud to violate Medicaid reimbursement rules, leading to millions in illegitimate payments.
The allegations, made by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, are complicated — the city is accused of circumventing Medicaid rules in order to speed program payments for low-income children with developmental disabilities.
In order for Medicaid to cover such programs, the city first had to show that private insurers had already turned the claims away. The alleged scheme essentially made it look as if the city had submitted the payments for private reimbursement, when in fact it never had.
Among other aspects of the scheme, the vendor, CSC, allegedly programmed its computer systems to automatically insert a fake insurance policy number — “999-999-999” — with many of the claims submitted to Medicaid. The fake number ensured that every claim was immediately denied by private insurers, which got the Medicaid ball rolling much faster, expediting payments to the city.
There was no personal gain involved; the charging documents don’t allege that anyone was, for example, pocketing these funds. They were going where they were ultimately supposed to — to poor children who needed help.
Even so, Bharara, the federal government’s chief law enforcement officer in the region, says the scheme was illegal. He’s seeking “treble” damages from the city — a fine of three times the sum of the ill-gotten gains — but doesn’t specify the amount fraudulently obtained, beyond saying that it was “millions” of dollars.
This is one of those stories that leaves you wondering who the winners are. The kids? They got help faster than they otherwise would have. The private insurers? They were, of course, let off the hook for claims they might have otherwise had to pay. And who’s the bad guy? These crooks conniving to…get help for sick children? Hmm.
The city’s Law Department told the New York Times that it is cooperating with the investigation, but that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
“We strongly disagree with the allegations, which we believe involve technical billing issues, not fraud,” the Law Department told the Times. “All services billed were authorized and provided.”
Bharara, in a statement, said that “billing frauds like those alleged undermine the integrity of public healthcare programs like Medicaid. All public healthcare program participants, whether they are healthcare providers, localities like the City, or contractors like CSC, should understand that they must comply with the applicable billing rules.”