Iowa State Auditor Mary Mosiman has issued a report concluding state officials privatized the Medicaid program in 2016 “without establishing a reliable methodology for calculating cost savings.” And Mosiman’s updated calculation shaves about 14-point-six million dollars off the savings estimate the Reynolds Administration released in May.
Mosiman says the report will hopefully provide some clarity about program costs and savings.
Rob Sand, the Democrat who defeated Mosiman’s bid for another term as state auditor, criticized her for not completing and releasing her review of Medicaid BEFORE the election. Mosiman says the data needed to complete the report wasn’t available until AFTER the election.
The state senator who asked for the report called it “a big pile of excuses with no good answers for Iowa taxpayers who are being ripped off.” Senator Pam Jochum (YOH-kum), a Democrat from Dubuque, says the auditor’s report fails to show how much the out-of-state corporations still owe Iowa hospitals, doctors and other health care providers for unpaid bills.
