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Last year, officials overseeing New Jersey's employee health plan — which covers the state's teachers, cops and other public workers — discovered something that made no sense. The state had been billed $674,856 for a patient's care at NewYork-Presbyterian. But it had paid $2,026,524, some three times what it was charged.

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