tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 13

Medicaid: Panel Wants Medicaid Funds To Fund Medicaid

Federal government is being taken advantage of by states, panel says.How to make states accountable for spending federal Medicaid funds only on needed Medicaid services: That's the continuing quest of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose Health Subcommittee held its first hearing of the year on the matter March 18. Witnesses said that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has taken some productive actions to limit states' use of so-called intergovernmental transfers to gain more federal funding without putting up the additional state dollars legally required to match it. For example, the General Accounting Office...

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