North Carolina Made Capitation Payments to Managed Care Entities After Beneficiaries' Deaths

Previous Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits found that States had improperly paid Medicaid managed care entities capitation payments on behalf of deceased beneficiaries. We conducted a similar audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Benefits, which administers the Medicaid program.Our objective was to determine whether North Carolina made capitation payments on behalf of deceased beneficiaries.