Department of Health and Human Services

Office of Inspector General -- AUDIT

April 30, 2008

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

For the period July 1, 2005, through June 30, 2006, we estimated that Maryland paid $2 million ($1 million Federal share) for Medicaid services provided to beneficiaries who should not have been eligible owing to their Medicaid eligibility/residence in the District of Columbia and $347,000 ($173,000 Federal share) for Medicaid services provided to beneficiaries whose residence could not be determined.  Both Maryland and the District of Columbia require that Medicaid beneficiaries be residents.

We recommended that Maryland work with the District of Columbia to share information for use in determining accurate beneficiary eligibility status and reducing the amount of payments made on behalf of beneficiaries residing in the District of Columbia.  We also recommended that the State determine the place of residence associated with beneficiaries whose residency could not be established and verify addresses of all beneficiaries.  The State generally concurred with our recommendations but not with verifying the addresses of beneficiaries on Supplemental Security Income or the amount of estimated savings, and it cited Federal regulations that required it to pay for some beneficiaries who were not residents of the State.  Because the State did not cite specific cases that it disagreed with, we continue to support our recommendations and the estimated savings.