Medicaid Funding At Risk In D.C. / City Has Overpaid Firms $97 Million, According to Audit
Source: By Yolanda Woodlee, Washington Post, Friday, July 20, 2007
The District wasted nearly $100 million over the past five years overpaying health care contractors for services that many Medicaid patients did not receive, a situation that puts the city in danger of losing federal funding, the D.C. Office of the Inspector General said (.pdf) yesterday.
Auditors found that three contractors -- Amerigroup Maryland, D.C. Chartered Health Plan and Health Right -- that coordinate medical services for about 90,000 low-income residents received a total of $96.6 million in "excess payments."