INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Family and Social Services Administration chief Mitch Roob put autism therapy providers on notice in a tense meeting with key stakeholders last week – requiring self-reporting of “abusive” billing practices used before a recent revamp of the program.
Providers must “self-report” to the state any practices that could constitute fraud, waste or abuse by Friday, April 3, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting.
The urgency follows a Tuesday, March 10 Wall Street Journal article that highlighted an Indiana provider as an example of out-of-control costs billed to the Medicaid program for applied behavior analysis therapy…