On March 19th, CMS notified Minnesota’s Medicaid Director that it has approved the state’s corrective action plan (CAP) for addressing fraud. The state submitted the CAP on January 30 in response to a CMS determination that the state was not in compliance with federal Medicaid law and that, as a result, CMS would withhold over $2 billion per year in federal Medicaid matching funds going forward until the state came into compliance. Before submitting the CAP, the state had requested the hearing, to which it is entitled, in order to contest the CMS compliance action before CMS can start withholding the funds. In its March 19 letter, CMS asked that the hearing requested by the state “be stayed pending complete implementation of the approved CAP, as successful completion would moot the appeal.”
At first blush, this seems like a routine bureaucratic back-and-forth between a state Medicaid…
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