MS Senate passes bill to require regular Medicaid audit, electronic records system

Medicaid, SNAP crackdown: Records, audits eyed

The Mississippi Senate passed a narrower version of a bill Monday that would require an electronic records system for Medicaid and a regular audit of Medicaid recipients.

House Bill 1116 would hire an outside company to build a computerized record of Medicaid recipients’ information. The Senate version, approved Monday by a committee, requires that Medicaid officials periodically verify recipients’ financial information and residency to determine if they’re still eligible for aid. Any recipient found to have left Mississippi would stop getting aid within three months after they left.

The bill would also create a unit within the attorney general’s office to investigate Medicaid fraud.

ClarionLedger
3/21/16