Last week, we ran an article about problems afflicting Medicaid. Part of that piece spotlighted a problem with West Virginia’s state level Medicaid fraud unit. The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General determined that the unit functioned mostly well, but had failed to report malefactors either at the patient or the practitioner level who committed fraud or abused the system.
Investigators found that there was no intent to avoid adding these subjects to the national database, but confusion reigned in a department with constant staff turnover and lack of training.
Loading the full story…
