Posted on 08/05/2009 5:07:57 PM PDT by fiscon1
This story appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
In a “body blow” to efforts to save the cash-strapped Grady Health System, the facility must pay $20 million to the state due to Medicaid overpayments made to the center years ago, officials said.
Grady CEO Michael Young said the hospital is paying for desperate decisions made by his predecessors. He said Grady officials in 2004 and 2005 aggressively maximized the amount of Medicaid they received, leaving the current regime to pay back the extra millions.
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