Apr 17 2008
Federal Government Witholds Mental Health Funding
The federal government has withheld payment of $175 million for a key state mental health program because of concern that the money was improperly spent.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services informed the state in an e-mail that it would defer payment for claims in the community support program during the last three months of 2007.
“While we realize some of the community support services expenditures may be legitimate, at this time we are not able to determine the ‘good’ expenditures from the ‘bad’ expenditures, resulting in us having to defer the entire amount,” wrote a financial analyst for the federal government.
Judging by the recent state of the mental health system in North Carolina, I would say there have been quite a bit of bad expenditures and probably an unnecessary amount of waste considering how much money has been spent. The state government continues to be run by incompetent fools.
