(Story Courtesy of Kentucky Today)

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – State Auditor Allison Ball released a special examination of the Kentucky Department of Medicaid Services (DMS) on Wednesday, which says a specific failure on the part of DMS led to more than $800 million of wasted taxpayer money.

It found that DMS did not take basic steps to ensure it was not duplicating payments made by other states once a recipient moved out of Kentucky and enrolled in another state’s Medicaid program. All states must check for and investigate alerts from the federal government warning that double (or more) payments are occurring, but DMS failed to do so. This failure led to about $800 million worth of unnecessary capitation payments to MCOs across four years (from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2022).

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