CMS To Help States Implement Payment Suspensions

OIG Finds Most Medicaid Agencies Rarely Use Fraud Allegation Response
Jerry Ashworth
October 9, 2017 at 09:26:27 ET
To improve Medicaid program integrity, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to provide additional technical assistance to encourage state agencies to suspend payments to providers during investigations of potential fraud, in response to recommendations in a recent HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit. The So... Read More