States bolstering efforts to fight Medicaid waste, fraud in wake of GAO report

Many state Medicaid programs are trying to improve their data analytics and provider education to curb fraud and waste within the program — efforts recently criticized in a federal report — one official said this week.Dianne Hasselman, deputy executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, told Bloomberg BNA that state Medicaid programs are “trying to have better quality data” and “greater transparency” but are still limited by less-than-ideal integrity reviews.

Source: States bolstering efforts to fight Medicaid waste, fraud in wake of GAO report – McKnight’s Long Term Care News

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