Federal Audit Finds Thousands Wrongly Enrolled in California’s Medicaid Expansion
California Medicaid Expansion Under Scrutiny After Thousands Enrolled by Mistake
An estimated 450,000 people were mistakenly enrolled under Medicaid expansion; many of which may not have been eligible for coverage, according to a report by the U.S. Health and Human Services’ chief watchdog. There are limitations to the review, however, because the audit extrapolated from a sample of 150 beneficiaries. It is inevitable that in a big rollout of new eligibility for any public program there are going to be glitches in implementation,” said Kathy Hempstead, a health-policy expert and senior adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “The inspector general wants to make sure that states are being sufficiently careful.
