Follow-Up Review of a Finding Contained in a New York State Office of the State Comptroller Audit Report

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Office of Inspector General Washington, D.C. 20201 DEC 1 7 2G02 TO: Neil Donovan Director, Audit Liaison Staff Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services FROM: Dennis J. Duquette Deputy Inspector for Audit Services Follow-Up Review of a Finding Contained in a New York State Office of the SUBJECT: State Comptroller Audit Report on Duplicate School Health Claims to Medicaid made by the New York City Board of Education (A-02-02-01018) As part of the Office of Inspector General’s self-initiated audit work, we are alerting you to the issuance within 5 business days of our final report entitled, “Follow-Up Review of a Finding Contained in a New York State Office of the State Comptroller Audit Report on Duplicate School Health Claims to Medicaid made by the New York City Board of Education.” A copy of the report is attached. This report is one in a series of reports in our multi-state initiative focusing on costs claimed for :Medicaidschool-based health services. We suggest you share this report with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) components involved in program integrity, provider issues, and state Medicaid agency oversight, particularly the Center for Medicaid and State Operations. if: The objectives of the review were to determine 0 New York State (NYS) recouped the improper duplicate school health payments made to BOE) that were identified in the Office of the New York City Board of Education ...