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Article: N.C. MENTAL HEALTH ANNOUNCES ACTION PLAN FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 13, 2007
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release:
Last month, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced that is was conducting a review of its community support services to see if they were being used appropriately. Results of that audit indicate that some providers are misusing the service. DHHS is taking immediate, aggressive action - including recouping payment for services that aren't fully documented, withholding Medicaid payments and referring cases to the proper authorities for investigation of fraud and abuse. "When we created this new service definition 11 months ago, we said that we would monitor the situation ...