Florida Received Unallowable Medicaid Reimbursement for School-Based Services

Florida school districts participating in Medicaid as providers certify quarterly that they have used non-Federal education funds for school-based services.Prior Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits identified significant overpayments to school districts for school-based services. In those audits, we recommended that the States refund to the Federal Government the unallowable reimbursement that was claimed for the Medicaid school-based services. We performed this audit in Florida to determine whether the unallowable reimbursements we identified in other States also occurred in Florida.Our objective was to determine whether Florida claimed Federal Medicaid reimbursement for school-based services in accordance with Federal and State requirements.