tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 41

Medicaid: CMS TO HIRE 100 MEDICAID-MAXIMIZATION COPS

The White House Office of Management and Budget has approved hiring 100 new federal employees to head off the stream of federal Medicaid dollars that go to what are known as states' "Medicaid maximization" provisions - state policies designed to expand federal financing of the program. Currently under discussion: how best to deploy the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services staff members around the country, CMS Acting Deputy Administrator Leslie Norwalk told Medicaid managed-care executives Oct. 23. "It's always easier to stop a dollar going out than to collect one once it's been spent," said Norwalk. That...

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