Posted on 09/01/2007 6:58:22 PM PDT by mombyprofession
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration issued proposed rules Friday to trim Medicaid payments to schools.
Medicaid is the federal-state health insurance program for poor people.
Schools are currently billing Medicaid for administrative and overhead costs that aren't related to delivering health services to poor people, said Dennis Smith, director for the Center for Medicaid and State Operations.
He said examples have included costs associated with school construction projects and transporting poor students to school.
"They are essentially administrative costs of the education system and should not be billed to the Medicaid program," Smith said.
He said schools would still get reimbursed for transporting Medicaid recipients to offsite health care appointments.
The Bush administration estimates tightening the Medicaid reimbursement rules would save the government $3.6 billion over five years.
It seems to me that a reasonable solution for fixing the Medicare system would be to eliminate fraud.
This is nuts. When was the stupid law or regulation changed to let schools skim off Medicaid. Makes me ill as a physician that some dang school administrator is pulling funds from the terrible paying system that has the liberals always screaming is not well funded.
And low and behold Medicaid is paying for something other that health care.
WTH.
“The Bush administration estimates tightening the Medicaid reimbursement rules would save the government $3.6 billion over five years.”
Yeah. Liberals cry that they don’t have enough funding, and this crap is going on. It’s just like the public schools. We have no choice, but are forced to pour money into a big, stinkin hole.
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