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Florida's $817 million in claims associated with the temporarily increased Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) was computed using the Medicaid expenditure base specified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, P.L. No. 111-5 (Recovery Act), and the expenditures were supported by the State's accounting records. The Recovery Act provides, among other initiatives, fiscal relief to States to protect and maintain State Medicaid programs in a period of economic downturn. For the recession adjustment period (October 1, 2008, through December 31, 2010), the Recovery Act provides an estimated $87 billion in additional Medicaid funding based on temporary increases in States' FMAPs. The Federal Government pays its share of a State's medical assistance expenditures under Medicaid based on the FMAP, which varies depending on the State's relative per capita income.
In addition, the State had policies and procedures in place to segregate Medicaid expenditures that qualified for the temporarily increased FMAP and to ensure that those Medicaid expenditures that did not qualify were not claimed for reimbursement at the temporarily increased FMAP. Accordingly, we made no recommendations.
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