Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Michigan Medicaid Audit Forgot the Kids, Again

Michigan has recently, and finally figured out that it is time to reduce duplication of paperwork and streamline its agencies.

(Notice how I did not use the term "eliminate duplicate paperwork".  That is another discussion.)

The state has merged its Department of Community Health with its Department of Human Services to become the Department of Health and Human Services.

Great.

The Office of Auditor General has a new take on life, too!

The following is the new format for audits in Michigan, streamlined because it cites no contractual programs which were audited.

What struck me with particular interests were:

  1. CHAMPS contract program findings were not identified in the scope of the audit; and,
  2. The [sic] "audit did not include contract and grant agreements with community mental health organizations, local health departments, and the Office of Services to the Aging."
  3. The audit did not include contract and grant agreements with any child welfare services.
More than likely, these contracted programs, which were not specifically enumerated,  of protected populations were specifically excluded from the scope of the audit because they either fall under single program audits or the state wanted to keep its dirty laundry out of the public purview, still being under federal monitoring of its child welfare services and the fact that the DOJ is still conducting operations with its health care fraud task force with dealing with the elder population.


Either these mentioned instances are viable assumptions or Michigan is just up to its same shit, refusing any transparency in its pathetic sub-recipient grant monitoring of child welfare services in Medicaid, again.

I am betting on the latter because Michigan is leading the nation for privatization of its child welfare services, in the name of God, and everyone know, you cannot audit God.

#Time2AuditGod and do some ruleouts with my assumptions.

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