Personal Care Services: Inspection of Attendant Background Checks
This report details the inspection to determine if home health providers obtain and evaluate background information on attendant care personnel to ensure client safety. Issued January 16, 2019.

Automated Monthly Social Security Number Verification
This report details the inspection to determine if HHSC Access and Eligibility Services properly addresses non-verified Social Security numbers to prevent ineligible client enrollment in Texas Medicaid. Issued January 3, 2019.

Duplicate Capitation Payments to Managed Care
This report details the inspection to determine if Texas Medicaid processes identify or prevent duplicate capitation payments to managed care organizations for clients enrolled in both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Issued September 4, 2018.

Access and Eligibility Services: Interstate and Income Match Action Alerts
This report details the inspection to determine whether HHSC Customer Care Center responses to OIG match action alerts prevent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid overpayments. Issued August 21, 2018.

Long-Term Services and Supports: Community Attendant Services
This report details the inspection to determine if Community Attendant Services are billed to Medicaid and rendered to clients in accordance with program requirements. Issued August 7, 2018.

Multiple Medicaid Identification Numbers
This report details the inspection to determine if Texas Medicaid made multiple capitation payments for clients with multiple Medicaid ID numbers. Issued June 8, 2018.

Electronic Visit Verification System
This report details the inspection of the Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) System to determine how effective it is at verifying that home visits for Medicaid clients occurred and at confirming that home services were provided. Issued May 29, 2018.

Medicaid Payments for Deceased Clients
This report details the inspection of capitation payments made for deceased clients in the Texas Medicaid system, to determine how processes can be strengthened to identify and recoup those payments. Issued May 29, 2018.

Treasury Offset Program
This report details the inspection of procedures to maximize recovery of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program overpayments through the Treasury Offset Program. Issued October 20, 2017.

Speech Therapy
This report details the inspection of Texas Medicaid providers to examine MCO controls for prior authorization, best practices to strengthen controls, medical necessity for authorization, and speech therapy utilization rates across managed care service areas. Issued October 2, 2017.

Pediatric Dental Sedation
This report details the inspection of Texas Medicaid providers to determine if dental sedation procedures performed on Medicaid pediatric patients are medically necessary and meet the standard of care. Issued July 14, 2017.

Opioid Drug Utilization
This report details the inspection of Texas Medicaid efforts to reduce prescription opioid abuse and overutilization. Issued May 30, 2017.