Audit: $406M faulty Medicaid payouts
January 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
1/14/2012
By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press
AIKEN — A federal audit released Friday said South Carolina may have spent more than $406 million on improper Medicaid payments and nearly 11 percent of payments were made in error.
The state’s error rate of nearly 19 percent was nearly triple the national rate of 3.6 percent.
State Department of Health and Human Services Executive Director Tony Keck said many of the people who received the improper benefits would have qualified for the money if procedures had been properly followed.
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