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Report Says North Carolina Owes $41M Due To Medicaid Mistakes

A patient is assisted at the Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton, N.C. (AP File Photo/Gerry Broome)

The Trump Administration is claiming North Carolina owes the federal government $41 million because of Medicaid errors. The state begs to differ.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report Thursday detailing the charges.

According to the News and Observer, the report says that errors by state workers processing Medicaid claims led to nearly $63 million in improper Medicaid payments.

The federal government covered roughly $41 million of those payments, and now wants North Carolina to pay it back.

The state disagrees with the findings, and there are no current plans to return that money.

The processing errors took place under the watch of Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue and Republican Governor Pat McCrory.

North Carolina officials say that the procedures for federal compliance were corrected in 2013.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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