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Podcast on Medicaid Payments to Health Care Providers

Posted on May 11, 2015

Under Medicaid, states pay health care providers and receive federal matching funds for their payments. We have previously found that some states’ excessive Medicaid payments to certain provider institutions shifted costs inappropriately from states to the federal government.

Hear our podcast with Katherine Iritani, a director in GAO's Health Care team, who led a recent review of state Medicaid payments to government and private health care provider institutions in selected states.

Medicaid Payments to Health Care Providers

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