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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Medicaid Paid $9.6 Million For Dead Patients

From the statement of Seto Bagdoyan, Director, Forensic Audits and Investigative Service (June 2, 2015):

Approximately 8,600 beneficiaries received benefits worth about $18.3 million concurrently in two or more states –- even though federal regulations do not permit beneficiaries to have payments made on their behalf by two or more states concurrently.

…… our work raises concerns about whether payments made on behalf of certain beneficiaries were appropriate, including the following:

Read the entire entry at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.

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