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Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 July 2009 01:46 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 8 July 2009 01:46
From Crain’s Detroit Business:
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox today unveiled a proposal to create a new state office that would audit the state’s Medicaid program, claiming it would save the state $100 million per year in fraudulent claims.
The proposed agency, dubbed the Michigan Office of Medicaid Inspector General, would be created by new state legislation to be sponsored in the House by Rep. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, and in the Senate by Sen. Roger Kahn, R-Saginaw Twp.
The new agency would oversee state Medicaid contracts, inspect health care provider records and investigate complaints of waste or abuse within the state’s $10 billion Medicaid budget, Cox said in a statement released at his Wednesday press conference.