Medicaid Program: Payments for Medicaid Services for Deceased Recipients January 1, 2000 through September 20, 2001

May, 2002 Oklahoma Health Care Authority Medicaid Program: Payments for Medicaid Services for Deceased Recipients January 1, 2000 through September 20, 2001 In the mid 1990s, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (DHHS -OIG) began an initiative to work more closely with states in reviewing the Medicaid program. Through this initiative, the OIG / State Audit Partnership Plan was developed in the later 1990s to expand Medicaid program audits and allow state auditors to apply methodologies that DHHS had successfully used in their Medicare audits. One such area was provider payments made for services following to . . .