U.S. to ask states to revalidate “high-risk” Medicaid providers

April 21 (Reuters) – Mehmet Oz, who heads the agency that runs the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs, said on Tuesday the Trump administration plans to ask all 50 states to revalidate Medicaid providers in what he called “high-risk” areas of their states.

Oz, speaking at Politico’s Health Care Summit in Washington D.C., said that the audit will be announced this week and that the states will be asked to give the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services a plan to revalidate the providers over the next 30 days.

(Reporting by Michael Erman and Chris Prentice)

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