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	Medicaid Improper Payments

mklosinski

10-7-2009 6:05 AM

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mklosinski says:

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Gee an Agency that's mismanaged and hurting the taxpayers! Maybe the Government should step in and take it over! Oh.......it already has.

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These improper payments equaled the largest share--26 percent--of all improper government payments in 2008.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/47470"><DIV>
Improper payments include payments to ineligible persons or for ineligible services, duplicate payments, payments for services not received or full payments made when discounts might apply. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/47470"><DIV>
These mistakes include inadequate documentation--which accounted for 90 percent of the improper payments--pricing errors and payment for non-covered services. Taylor also noted that “improper payments due to payment system errors are routinely resolved and payment adjustments are made.”</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2D13C685-51D8-4375-BD7B-7B60DE6193C3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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