The HHS Office of Inspector General wants New Mexico to recover $11 million from a Medicaid home care provider, but the state isn't going along with the idea.Coordinated Home Health claimed at least $11 million improperly for personal care attendant services in 2006 through 2008, the OIG maintains in a new report. Nearly half of the claims from the 100-claim sample didn't meet requirements, mostly due to attendant qualification issues, the watchdog agency says.Nearly all the deficiencies the OIG found "involve technical or documentation problems that do not support a conclusion that payments were improperly made," the state says in its response letter to the report. The report is at
http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region6/60900064.pdf.
