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Medicaid overexpenditure prior year prompts release of funds; fraud review program expanded
Summary
JBC members described a $223.7 million overexpenditure in Medicaid for FY23-24 that led to a controller 'lock' which the supplemental would release; the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing will also receive funding to expand fraud detection of nonemergency medical transportation and to comply with a DOJ ADA settlement.
Representative Matt Byrd briefed the caucus on the Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) supplemental, saying the state had an overexpenditure in Medicaid for fiscal year 2023–24 and must address it in the current budget.
"I just will remind the committee that Medicaid is an entitlement," Byrd said. He reported a FY23–24 overexpenditure of $223,700,000 and described the controller's practice…
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