A recent state audit of 100 Medicaid claims over a two-year period by all five opioid treatment providers that billed Rhode Island Medicaid during that period found at least one problem with every single claim.
But the state agency that oversees these providers failed to flag these problems consistently, despite visiting facilities every other year, according to the Oct. 7 report by Rhode Island’s Office of the Auditor General.
The Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH) regularly sends its inspectors to opioid treatment facilities. “These oversight activities were not sufficient to ensure full compliance with mandatory regulatory requirements,” the audit reads…