A prominent Buffalo doctor who built an urban health care organization on the city's West Side that he sold four years ago has long been under investigation for Medicaid fraud by the state Attorney General's Office.

In court papers filed earlier this year, the Attorney General's Office said it has been looking into alleged "fraudulent Medicaid billing practices by" Dr. Raul Vazquez and his former company, the Greater Buffalo United Accountable Healthcare Network, since 2014.

The investigation only became public because the attorney general in April filed a motion in State Supreme Court in Erie County to compel Vazquez to appear and answer questions under oath related to an investigatory subpoena that was issued in November 2022. The filing, first reported on Wednesday by WGRZ , makes i

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