AHCA Medicaid contractor failed to collect over $100-mil for state
Phil Williams, interim deputy secretary for Medicaid at AHCA, just got an earful from senators on the health care appropriations committee who learned that the company hired last year to collect an estimated $120-million in Medicaid overpayments has so far collected zilch. Zip. Nada.
And that leaves the state's Medicaid budget $120 leaner than what was expected -- not a good situation as the Legislature looks down the barrel of rising Medicaid costs and a more than $2-billion budget shortfall.
"We are going into this budget crisis, and here we are just not collecting overpayments?," said a ticked Sen. Mike Haridopolos, the Republican tapped to be the next Senate president. "If $100 million could have been collected, how could we go a whole year without collecting money that could go back to taxpayers? And then we just tell the company that got the contract, 'Oh it's OK, we'll wait.' In the real world, a company would have been fired for doing that."
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