State Medicaid Revalidation Process Leaves some Providers in Limbo

DHS revalidation process terminates more than 1,000 Medicaid providers

Success Homes North Inc. disputes the letter it received, saying it puts 24 mentally and physically disabled adults in group homes at risk.

State Medicaid revalidation process leaves some providers in limbo

ROCHESTER — Jen Diedrich remembered the moment this spring when the paperwork for each of MAC Midwest's 18 autism care centers, all in one go, were marked as "approved" in an online portal. This meant the Minnesota Department of Human Services would start doing its on-site visits as part of its fraud-fighting Medicaid provider revalidation process — the deadline for which was Sunday, May 31. "For the last three weeks, really, we've been waiting …

Questions over DHS revalidation process still remain

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) made an agreement with the federal government to revalidate more than 5,500 high-risk Medicaid providers. The agency’s most current online data shows just over 1,000 providers have been approved and just over 1,000 have been disenrolled from federal funding.

Minnesota Medicaid crisis: Thousands of care providers cut off from funding after state revalidation deadline

A rushed Medicaid review has left thousands of Minnesota care providers suddenly without funding, putting services and jobs at risk.

Advocates say thousands of legitimate providers disenrolled from high-risk Medicaid programs

Providers and disability advocates worry many providers were disenrolled simply because the Department of Human Services ran out of time to revalidate providers.