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Posted on 03/27/2009 8:10:04 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
The New Mexico Medicaid program is funded by $800 million of New Mexico taxpayers' money.
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As enrollment in Medicaid began plummeting in 2004, toward the biggest disruption to health care among low-income New Mexicans in history, community groups and the Legislature began seeking performance data to evaluate the administration of the program. The department responded by significantly limiting information. The information it did provide was often unclear, inadequate and of little use for the purposes of oversight. The department claimed it was the best it could do. Officials variously blamed their computer system, the former administration, being short-handed, or lawsuits by nonprofit organizations.
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Last month, it appears that the Human Services Department tried to quietly pass a bill that, according to the Journal, “would have gutted the law intended to shine a spotlight into how the state conducts business”
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A few days ago, the Legislature passed two bills — HB 130 and HB 544 — that would make it law for the department to report basic performance data about the Medicaid program. The Human Services Department vigorously opposed them both.
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What kind of corruption is the NM The Human Services Department covering up? Sigh...it never ends!
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I can shed a little light. Yes, enrollment in NM’s Medicaid program has dropped, but it has not “plummeted.” The main reason is that a certain population has been transitioned from the Medicaid rolls to the SCHIP rolls. NM, for the past 5 years, has been implementing what is called a demonstration, where unmarried childless adults have received limited benefits thru Title XXI, or SCHIP, funding. While this transition of numbers appears that enrollment has dropped, the number of recipients has actually increased because enrollment has been spread across Medicaid and SCHIP. This demonstration ends this year, so it can be anticipated that these recipients will be transitioned back to the Medicaid rolls, and enrollment will seemingly increase.
Heard Mayor Blooming-idiot on WOR radio this morning. Insisting that there is very little fraud in NYC medicaid.
He then went on to say he uses those funds to pay for graduate school for medical students.
Hardly think that was the intended use for that money. He insisted it is the only way we can get good doctors.
Evidently Blooming-idiot is a law unto himself.
A few days ago, the Legislature passed two bills — HB 130 and HB 544 — that would make it law for the department to report basic performance data about the Medicaid program. The Human Services Department vigorously opposed them both.
Congress: Accountability bad!
President: Accountability bad!
Governor: Accountability bad!
Why should it surprise us that these administrators think "Accountability bad!"?
This frigging “nanny” state isn’t satisfied with paying what the federal government requires be paid for Medicaid. NY has higher standards and pays MORE! No incentive for fraud here at all... (sarc!)
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