Iowa Inadequately Monitored Its Medicaid Health Home Provider Organizations

Between January 2013 and December 2016, the Iowa Medicaid program may have failed to adequately document about half of claims paid to health home provider organizations. Iowa's health home provider organizations did not document core services, integrated health home outreach services, diagnoses, and enrollment with provider organizations. In addition, the health home provider organizations did not maintain documentation to support higher payments for intense integrated health home services and did not ensure that beneficiaries had full Medicaid benefits.

A review conducted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS . . .