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You are here: Home / Due Process Rights / HHSC Collecting SOAH Medicaid Provider Hearing Costs Because SOAH Worried About Funding

HHSC Collecting SOAH Medicaid Provider Hearing Costs Because SOAH Worried About Funding

June 23, 2014 By TDMR 2 Comments

budgetAs was reported in the Austin American Statesman back on May 25th, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking tens of thousands of dollars in advance from dentists who wish to go before the State Office of Administrative Hearings for either a Medicaid payment hold or overpayment hearing.

“Abusive”

Attorney Tony Canales portrayed the large amounts of the advance payments as “abusive.”

SB 1803 opened the door to having providers advance security

This situation comes from a provision in last session’s due process rights legislation for Medicaid providers which requires providers to advance security for the payment of 50% of the SOAH hearing costs. An administrative judge can change the amount for good cause after the hearing and the legislation does not state the amount of the advance. However HHSC is generally looking for tens of thousands of dollars as security, which presents a substantial barrier to a hearing for these dental Medicaid providers.

SOAH worried about collecting from Medicaid providers and made an agreement with HHSC

SOAH is also under Sunset Review this legislative session and TDMR recently went through their self-evaluation report which sheds some light on this “advance” situation.

What has occurred is that SOAH has made an arrangement and signed an inter-agency contract with HHSC for HHSC to bear all of the SOAH court costs for hearings because SOAH was concerned about getting paid from Medicaid providers for their 50%. The other part of the agreement is that HHSC collects the 50% from the providers.

“SOAH is currently authorized to hear cases from the HHSC involving payment holds in fraud cases. Therefore, those are not a new category of cases for SOAH. The cases involving recovery of Medicaid overpayments would be a new category of cases referred to SOAH by the HHSC. The Act’s requirement that the provider be responsible for one-half of SOAH’s costs in these cases could have affected SOAH’s funding source and was cause for concern for SOAH.

However, SOAH and the HHSC have entered into an interagency contract whereby HHSC will pay SOAH its full costs, and HHSC will recover from the provider the portion of costs allocated to the provider. That arrangement has alleviated some of SOAH’s concerns about payment for its services for these cases.” (from page 84)

So it appears, HHSC is taking steps to ensure collection of the anticipated 50% before any hearing is held.

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Filed Under: Due Process Rights, Medicaid Reform News Tagged With: due process rights, state office of administrative hearings, texas health and human services commission

Comments

  1. Michael Hojas says

    September 13, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    This is government racketeering. These agencies don’t use real judges, don’t have real courts, are not part of the legal system, hold 100% payments and require upfront costs to hear an alleged fraud case of costs upwards of 75,000.00 dollars which then are found to be not fraudulent by SOAH so called judges only to be overturned by a HHSC so called judge. Why? because they want to extort money out of professionals. Change the names of HHSC and SOAH to the Gambino family and it’s a felony. They are esentially doing the same thing minus the murders.

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    • TDMR says

      September 14, 2014 at 12:24 am

      Unfortunately this is the case. It has been called a shakedown and there doesn’t appear to be any embarrassment about it.

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