State news: Minnesota pauses recoupments
By HME News Staff
Updated 8:41 AM CST, Tue December 29, 2020
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Human Services has temporarily suspended its plans to recoup payments where the state Medicaid program paid more for DME than Medicare did in 2018 per the 21st Century Cures Act, MAMES reports. In December, the state association received a letter from the state saying, “DHS has temporarily suspended our processes for these recoveries.” MAMES believes the pause is due to the current public health emergency. “There is not a clear date as to when DHS will move forward,” the association stated in a bulletin. “(But) what this suspension does is allow MAMES the time to continue the work being done to stop recoupment from happening.” MAMES emailed DHS on Nov. 25, asking for an immediate response to its request that the recoupments not go forward. The email was followed by two meetings in December, one with governor’s staff and one with DHS staff. MAMES highlighted the work of its lobbyist, Nick Zerwas, for getting the governor involved and for getting DHS to respond to MAMES.
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