DURHAM, N.C. -- Gov. Beverly Perdue says she is putting together a plan to make North Carolina more diligent in dealing with people who are abusing the state's Medicaid system through fraud and waste.
Perdue said Wednesday she'll roll out in the next couple of weeks an initiative that identifies unnecessary health services and providers overprescribing certain drugs.
The governor told more than 600 people at the North Carolina Chamber's annual meeting in Durham the newly developed system should help detect patients who may be gaming the system.
Perdue says Attorney General Roy Cooper has agreed to prosecute those people once identified.
The effort comes amid projections the state this year will spend $250 million more on Medicaid than budgeted.
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Governor
Want to show you are serious?
Assign a dozen or more of the fraud investigators from the Department of Insurance to the task.
Complement their activities with the help of a dozen or more SBI investigators.
Have them target one large city like Raleigh, Durham or Charlotte.
Give them a set time frame for their first report and indictments.
That will show you are serious and will send some shivers through the spines of health care and home health care service providers.
Riiiiiiight, Bev!
We'll believe that when we see it. You're a Democrat. You will do absolutely nothing to the people who reward Democrats every second November for their "generosity" with other people's money.
Best reform for Medicaid?
Get rid of it.
medicaid
Well it is about time. Working in the healthcare system I see that some patients with Medicaid are often times more wastefull than those with private insurance, even those with Carolina Access. There is a majority of those on medicaid who truley need it and use it accordingly, but there are those who abuse it because it is free to them. There needs to be a better way to hold people accountable for there use of medicaid. I hope this is in the govenments plan.