Oklahoma Medicaid Fraud In Child Welfare Shredding Policy

For all those naysayers who stay up nights battling the reality that I am proper and factual in everything I post, here is another codified reason why Medicaid fraud in child welfare is kept hidden from the public.

In Oklahoma they have a shredding policy.

OKDHS

Programs Division

Consolidated Records Disposition Schedule 87-04

January 26, 2006

Division of Children, Youth and Family Services/Management Support Unit/Operations
37-9 Remittance Statement of Medicaid Claims Paid Confidential Record 10 O.S., §7005-1.1 through 7005-1.8

Description: File contains State of Oklahoma Medicaid Management Information System report, OKMM 2790, Remittance Statement of Medicaid Claims Paid for OKDHS-Child Welfare; and M2790R04, Targeted Case Management, Monthly Statement.
Volume: 2 cubic feet per year

Disposition: Retain in office six (6) months, then transfer to the OKDHS Records Center. Destroy records when they become seven (7) years old provided: (a) all audits have been completed and all applicable audit reports have been accepted and resolved by all applicable federal and state agencies; (b) no legal actions are pending; and (c) approval to destroy documents has been received from the State Records Administrator. If legal action is pending, destroy two (2) years after exhaustion of all legal remedies provided records meet all stipulated retention requirements, and approval to destroy records has been received from the State Records Administrator.
Added October 13, 1999