eligibility
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Medicaid states must show that their fixes for eligibility errors will not wrongly deny coverage. GAO found that check missing from all 14 plans it reviewed, and in one state more than 30 percent of sampled denials were errors.
When a state's Medicaid eligibility reviews find errors, it must send CMS a corrective action plan, and each plan must evaluate whether the fixes could lead to more improper denials. GAO's report released September 17 reviewed the plans of seven states and found that evaluation missing from all 14 plans, while CMS accepted them anyway. It also found CMS does not analyse errors and fixes across states, so one state's lesson does not reach the other 50. The stakes run both ways: GAO counted 2,789 eligibility errors in states' reviews since 2019, most from caseworkers and missing documents, and a separate sample of denials found error rates of 12 percent or more in five of the seven states in at least one year, above 30 percent in one. GAO made two recommendations. HHS agreed with one and said the other was already done; GAO disagreed.
Also filed undergaomedicaidcmshealth-coverageoversight
Owing delinquent federal debt makes you ineligible for an Export-Import Bank loan guarantee. GAO found the Bank's procedures do not always require staff to check the free federal database that would tell them.
The Export-Import Bank backs U.S. exports with loan guarantees, and by law a person owing certain outstanding delinquent federal nontax debt is ineligible. GAO's September 17 report, covering transactions from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025, found EXIM followed its own underwriting guidelines but 'has not fully leveraged available data to identify participants with delinquent federal nontax debt' — its procedures do not always require the use of readily available resources, including no-cost federal databases. One recommendation follows. The finding is not that ineligible applicants were approved; it is that the check which would establish that either way was not required.
Also filed undergaoeximcredit-riskpublic-spending
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