The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 provided the resources to establish the Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP), the first national strategy in the 40-year history of the Medicaid program to promote the ...

Medicaid is the joint federal-state health insurance program that provides medical coverage to almost five million low-income, elderly, disabled Floridians and children. Although the federal ...

The buck stops here. We’ve got to clean up the system. With these words, Dr. Mehmet Oz, now at the helm of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), signaled a pivotal moment for Medicaid ...

A recent report from the Office of Inspector General (pdf) found that 81 percent of audits from Medicaid Integrity Contractors did not or were unlikely to identify overpayments when they first started ...