Program Integrity

The Proper Use of Medicaid Improper Payment Rates

For the first time, CMS has posted state-specific rates of improper payments in Medicaid. This welcome exercise in transparency is a sea change in the Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) program, which CMS has been using since 2007 to help states improve the accuracy of their Medicaid payments.  Until now, CMS has been reporting only […]