Washington State’s Health Care Authority failed to properly manage its Medicaid managed care program in 2010. Incompetency led to $17.5 million in overpayments. From the Seattle Times,
“Overpayments are important, because total payments reported by the managed-care organizations are used to calculate future premiums paid by the state to the organizations, notes the report, which was released Monday.
“Because overpayments by the organizations inflate those figures, they put the state at risk of paying unnecessarily high premium rates in the future,” the report said.”
