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Recommendation: To enhance the provision of dental care to children covered by Medicaid and CHIP, and to help ensure that HHS's Insure Kids Now Web site is a useful tool to help connect children covered by Medicaid and CHIP with participating dentists who will treat them, the Secretary of HHS should require states to verify that dentists listed on the Insure Kids Now Web site have not been excluded from Medicaid and CHIP by the HHS-OIG, and periodically verify that excluded providers are not included on the lists posted by the states.
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Status: Open
Comments: As of September 2020, CMS has not indicated taking steps to require states to ensure excluded providers are not listed on the Insure Kids Now website, nor has it indicated taking steps to periodically verify that providers excluded from Medicaid and CHIP are not on the list. CMS has said that it relies on states to provide accurate lists of eligible dentists and that data issues prevent the agency from independently verifying that excluded providers are not included on the Insure Kids Now website. We continue to believe that CMS should require states to ensure that excluded providers are not listed on the website and periodically verify that excluded providers are not included on the lists posted by the states, so that the website does not present inaccurate information about providers available to serve Medicaid-covered children.
