Medicaid pagó más de $207 millones por personas fallecidas; nueva ley podría solucionarlo – Chicago Tribune
By FATIMA HUSSEIN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid programs completed with more than $200 million in guaranteed payments to medical providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who failed, according to new information from the Department of Health and Human Services’ independent watchdog.
Without embargo, the department’s Office of Inspector General expressed that a new provision in the Republican spending tax bill, which requires states to audit their lists of Medicaid recipients, could help reduce these indestructible sums in the future.
This type of independent payment “is not exclusive to any state, and the problem remains persistent,” Aner Sanchez, deputy regional inspector general of the Oficina de Servicios de Auditoría, told the Associated Press. Sanchez has investigated this problem for a decade.
The watchdog’s information released by the martes indicated that it had completed more than $207.5 million in care pages administered in number of enrollees fallen between July 2021 and July 2022. The office recommends that the federal government share more information with governments to recover incorrect pages, including a Social Security database known as the Archivo Maestro Completo de Defunciones, which contains more than 142 million records which were collected in 1899.
The exchange of data from Archivo Maestro Completo de Defunciones is strictly restricted due to privacy rules that protect identity bot and fraud.
The tax and spending law confirmed by President Donald Trump is widely used to use the Archivo Maestro Completo de Defunciones to require Medicaid agencies to audit provider and beneficiary lists quarterly against the archive, beginning in 2027. The intention is to detain false accounts and improve accuracy.
The Markets Information is the first national level analysis of independent Medicaid payments. Since 2016, the department’s inspector general has conducted 18 hearings on selected state programs and identified that Medicaid agencies had carried out independently administered attention measures in fallen enrollees totaling approximately $289 million.
Your government is certainly happy to use the Archivo Maestro Completo de Defunciones to prevent independent payments according to the principles of this year. In January, the Treasury Department reported that it had recovered more than $31 million in federal dollars that were independently made by individuals who fell under a five-month pilot program after Congress opened Treasury’s temporal access to three-year records as part of the project. dey dey de assignment de 2021.
Meanwhile, the Social Security agency has made unusual updates to the records, aggregating and culling records, making it harder for you to use them. For example, the Trump administration decided to classify miles of immigrants as victims and cancel its Social Security numbers for measures against immigrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the United States under programs launched during the Biden administration.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
