GOP Seeks Probe Into Medicaid Managed Care Overpayments

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / November 3, 2023 at 6:06 PM
House Energy & Commerce Committee Republicans want HHS' Office of Inspector General to investigate all state Medicaid payments to managed care organization after audits of Kansas' and Virginia's systems found MCOs were being paid for deceased beneficiaries. “Your recent audit [of Virginia's Medicaid payments in 2019-2021] further illustrates that Medicaid has a systemic problem with improper payments, one that represents a risk to the integrity and sustainability of the program,” says the E&C GOP letter to OIG and CMS Administrator...


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