The error happened because Florida was making capitation payments on behalf of beneficiaries who were incorrectly assigned more than one Medicaid identification number. OIG said Florida required a matching algorithm that was significantly more complex than the one it was using.
The audit covered about $43.2 billion in Medicaid capitation payments made between 2014 and 2017. Florida agreed to refund the federal government.
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