Your State and Federal tax dollars at work – Federal audit raps Colorado’s $10B Medicaid program for poor safeguards against fraud, abuse

Of the 28 states audited by the federal regulators in the past three years only three states — West Virginia, Alabama and California — had a poorer track record of overpayment recoveries from managed care providers than Colorado did. In contrast, Missouri collected $31 million in overpayments in three years from three providers reviewed there. In Pennsylvania, state officials recovered $443 million in Medicaid overpayments billed to a sampling of four providers, according to that state’s audit.

Having interfaced indirectly with the Medicaid system, I’ve seen the incompetence of this organization on display. Where IS my shocked face.