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  1. NYS Comptroller: Department of Health paid over $100M in improper Medicaid payments   [ MM Curator Summary]: 3 recent audits of the NY Medicaid program show significant preventable losses.
  2. Attorney General Ford Announces Sentencing of Las Vegas Medicaid Provider Randi Jewel Lewis in Fraud Case  [ MM Curator Summary]: 2 women who set up an entire shadow company solely for the purpose of defrauding Medicaid will get probation and have their prison sentences suspended.
  3. IL- Rate Increases to the Medicaid Fee Schedule (Dental)  [ MM Curator Summary]: IL dentists will get $10M in Medicaid payments next year.
  4. Size of Medicaid Expansion Influenced Administrative Spending  [ MM Curator Summary]: States that had more room to grow (ie had higher uninsurance rates) benefitted more when they expanded (in terms of administrative costs), likely due to economies of scale and handing over more scope to MCOs.
  5. State pushes back timeline for Medicaid bonuses; group home providers eye long-term solutions [ MM Curator Summary]: Florida is using an application process to distribute the recently approved federal funds for HCBS services, and providers want the money right now.
  6. Advocates Build Back Betters CHIP Medicaid Changes Support NY Families  [ MM Curator Summary]: The latest version of BBB/ "the Infrastructure Bill" still includes Medicaid components for 12 months continuous enrollment funding and making federal CHIP funding permanent.
  7. Some Colorado therapists will no longer take Medicaid patients  [ MM Curator Summary]: CO Medicaid is trying to recoup payments from years ago, and providers say they billed properly but a tech vendor took off key information.
  8. Judge stops federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Medicare, Medicaid facilities in 10 states  [ MM Curator Summary]: A lower court in eastern Missouri has ruled that CMS does not have the authority to make vaccination a condition required for provider payments.
  9. Medicaid Change Sending up to 70 California Inmates in Nursing Home Care Back to Prison  [ MM Curator Summary]: CA is unable to keep prisoners in nursing homes according to federal regulations that require no limitations on nursing home residents.
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