Maryland Health IG Reports $42M in Improper Payments from Audits Now Public
Maryland's Office of Inspector General for Health conducted 1,369 investigations and 53 audits over fiscal years 2023-2025 identifying $42 million in improper or unrecovered payments from healthcare providers and local health departments. The agency has now posted 20 audit reports publicly for the first time after operating largely without public disclosure since becoming independent in 2022. The reports detail $4.3 million owed by 13 healthcare providers for inadequate documentation and duplicate payments, plus $1.7 million owed by local health departments for documentation errors and missing equipment. The Maryland Department of Health, not the IG, handles recoveries and has historically forgiven portions of identified overpayments.
Maryland Medicaid stakeholders now have public visibility into program integrity enforcement and recoupment activity affecting providers and local agencies, though actual recovery amounts remain unclear.
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