Review of Wyoming's Accounts Receivable System for Medicaid Provider Overpayments

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the State agency reported Medicaid provider overpayments according to Federal regulations.  We found that the State agency's policies and procedures were not sufficient to ensure the timely reporting of all overpayments.  As a result, the State agency delayed returning the Federal share of identified overpayments totaling $211,667.  Of that amount, the State agency had not yet reported or returned $97,938 to the Federal government as of February 12, 2004.  We recommended that the State Agency ensure that the Federal share of overpayments totaling $97,938 is returned to the Federal government as soon as possible and strengthen policies and procedures to ensure all overpayments are reported in accordance with Federal regulations.  The State agency generally concurred with our findings and recommendations and initiated actions to address those issues.