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WASHINGTON - About 13 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries have private insurance that should pay their health-care bills, but that isn't always the case, congressional auditors said Tuesday.
Federal law requires Medicaid, the nation's health-care program for the poor, to be the payer of last resort. That means that if a beneficiary has health-care coverage from another source, that source should pay before Medicaid does.See the full content of this document
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Insurers Let Medicaid Pay, Audit Finds
But Census Bureau data shows that many poor people report having Medicaid coverage year-round while having private insurance for ...
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