Kansas' Department of Health and Environment erroneously paid about $1.3 million to Medicaid contractors for recipients who were dead.
An audit revealed that the payments occurred between 2015 and 2020 and spanned over 25 beneficiaries, according to an Aug. 9 release.
Contractors may have mistakenly received more state funds between 2019 and 2021 for the same reason had they not been caught by KDHE, according to the Kansas Reflector. Those payments, which add up to $19.2 million, were made up for by adjusting future payments.
In the same release, the state inspector general said an audit also discovered over $1.6 million had been used to pay for claims for beneficiaries who exceeded the 12-month lifetime eligibility limit. These payments occurred between 2018 and 2021.