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Mn Resumes Medicare Payments to Most High Risk Providers It Suspended
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The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) announced it is resuming Medicaid payments to over 2,000 providers after previously suspending thousands in programs deemed high-risk for fraud. The initial suspension affected around 3,400 providers who were reviewed due to concerns about fraudulent activity and incomplete paperwork. DHS stated its goal was to ensure legitimate care while maintaining legal compliance.
Key points
- DHS suspended payments to thousands of Medicaid providers in high-risk programs after a review process.
- The initial suspensions affected approximately 3,400 providers, with most disenrollments attributed to incomplete paperwork.
- Over 2,140 suspensions were subsequently lifted as DHS resumed payments to appealing providers.
- The suspension and revalidation effort occurred amid national attention regarding alleged 'industrial scale' fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid programs.
- Provider groups criticized the DHS review process as being rushed and poorly managed, fearing harm to clients.
Claims assessed
- VerifiableDHS suspended payments to thousands of providers after a months-long effort to verify that providers in 13 high-risk programs were legitimate operations.
- VerifiableThe suspension and revalidation process was influenced by threats from the Trump administration to withhold billions in Medicaid funding from Minnesota over fraud allegations.
- VerifiableFormer Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson speculated that total losses in Minnesota's Medicaid programs alone could exceed $9 billion since 2018.
Missing context
The article mentions that the threats to withhold funding came from officials associated with the Trump administration, but it does not provide an update on the current legal or administrative status of those federal threats or whether they have been fully resolved.
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