GAO Report faults states and contingency-fee Medicaid consultants

From the New York Times:

Two-thirds of the states use consultants to help them get morefederal Medicaid money, often by using “questionable billingpractices,” and then reward those consultants by giving them a share ofthe money as a contingency fee, Congressional investigators said onMonday.

These consultants are driving up Medicaidcosts by recommending financial tactics that violate federal law orpolicy, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office,said in a report to Congress.

The full GAO Report is available here.

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