Georgia Fires Back on Nursing Home Payments
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
The commissioner of Georgia’s Medicaid agency has written a sharply worded defense of nursing home payments now deemed improper by the federal government.
A federal ruling saying Georgia should return more than $100 million in nursing home payments “is factually and legally incorrect,’’ Clyde Reese, commissioner of the Department of Community Health, wrote in a February letter to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) official in Atlanta.
“Refunding payments previously approved by CMS would be inequitable and would result in unjust enrichment to the federal government,” Reese said. It would probably also lead to the closure of the more than 30 nursing homes involved, he added.
