A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) analysis discovered that health care insurers received at least $4.3 billion over three years for patients who lived in other states, meaning Medicaid – the joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals and families – paid twice, and sometimes even more, for the same recipients. The data showed that patients with tax-funded health care coverage who had moved from one state to another were being “covered” in both states. In fact, both Medicaid and Medicare (the federal program primarily for people 65 and older) were found to be making erroneous double payments, and the two combined cost taxpayers more than $1.8 trillion a year.
Taxpayers on the Hook for Billions in Erroneous Health Care Payments
It is up to each state to design their Medicaid programs to see who is…
