HHS Audit Says New Jersey Must Pay Back Hundreds of Millions in Medicaid Funds
November 29, 2017
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week
New Jersey wrongly billed Medicaid for more than $300 million worth of services that the state provided to students with disabilities between 2003 and 2015, and it needs to pay that money back, says a federal audit released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In addition, the federal government is questioning another $300 million in Medicaid that it provided to New Jersey for students with disabilities. HHS says that it wants to work with the state to find out just what portion of that money should be refunded.