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092923 1 (1970-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwuj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE ROOM IG03 JOHN F. KENNEDY FCDRAL BUILDING GOVERNMENT CENTER BOSTON, MiASSACHUSETTS 02203 June 12, 1970 e2 LM092923 Mr. Neil P. Fallon, Regional Commissioner Social and Rehabilitation Service John F. Kennedy Federal Building Government Center Boston, Massachusetts, 02203 Dear Mr. Fallon: The Boston Regional Office of the General Accounting Office has made a review of selected aspects of the Medicaid Progrnm in Massachus~etts, The? results of this revioe are b.n' consclidated with the results of similar reviews conducted in Illinois and California, and a report to the Congress is planned. Our review was conducted at the Boston Regional Office o the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare. The purpose of this letter is to bring to your attention certain matters which may not be included in the consolidated report, but which require corrective action by the State of Massachusetts. MATHEMATICAL ERRORS AND NOT USING ACTUAL NUMBJ6ER OF E!EMPTIONS At each of the five welfare service offices in the Poston Region we found that mathematical errors were mad& in computing the excess incomps of Medicaid recipients. We also found that all five welfere service offices had not coruted excLess inco-:-s based on the actual number of exemptions of the Medicaid recipic Lts, but instead used the number claimed by the recipients for Federal and State withholding tax purposos. Of the 127 Medicaid cases reviewed by us there wore 70 cases where mathematical errors of over $1 wore maci by wclfare service office personnel in co:mputing the individual.' excecs inCo'es,. The net understatement of excess incomes amounted to 477 or an averae of about $7 each. In addition, for 69 of the 127 cass, as. found that the actual number of the applicants' examptions were not used BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE

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