Indiana Medicaid Rehabilitation Option Program Failed to Report $23 Million in Overpayments & Interest from 2000 to 2005 to CMS

OPEN MINDS On-Line News Strategic Health Care News The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the federal Department of Health and Human Services are in disagreement about when a 60-day period to report Medicaid overpayments starts. The disagreement is related to a recent review of the FSSA Medicaid Rehabilitation Option (MRO) program surveillance and utilization review (SUR) audits between 2000 through 2005. OIG said that the state failed to report MRO provider overpayments of $23 million during the five-year period to the federal Centers for Medicare and . . .