State officials blasted for poor oversight of Medicaid programs
State officials who are supposed to keep an eye on how local social services departments determine eligibility for Medicaid aren’t putting in much effort, a new Office of the State Inspector General report finds.
It said that of 121 scheduled monitoring projects only 39 — less than a third -- were ever actually conducted in fiscal years 2014 to 2017.
None of the 25 scheduled monitoring projects in the state Department of Social Services’s eastern region, which includes Hampton Roads, were.
DSS said it didn’t keep to its scheduled of monitoring because of employee turnover and challenges implementing a its Virginia Case management system. It promised to do better.
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(Newport News Daily Press)
