The Trump administration will require all 50 states to explain their plans to revalidate some of their Medicaid providers in a national escalation of anti-fraud efforts that have so far largely focused on specific states, Dr. Mehmet Oz said Tuesday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator said during a Politico health care summit that his agency plans to ask states to “own” the problem of health care fraud this week with requests for states to share their strategies within 30 days.
“It’s an example of what we’d like them to do to prove that they’re serious about this,” Oz said onstage Tuesday. “And if you don’t take it seriously, it indicates to us that we might have to take the audits that we’re doing to the different states more aggressively,” he said, without elaborating.
Source: Dr. Oz announces a 50-state audit of Medicaid program oversight / KXAN