Cuomo officials face heat over Medicaid woes | WHAM

Cuomo officials face heat over Medicaid woes | WHAM: Albany, N. Y. (AP) - Top state health officials were peppered with a series of questions by New York lawmakers over concerns that the governor's call to curb soaring Medicaid spending could end up hurting residents' wallets. Democratic and Republican members of the Legislature used a Wednesday budget hearing to press the Commissioner of Health Howard Zucker and Medicaid Director Donna Frescatore for more transparency about what has led to soaring Medicaid costs that Gov.