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Iowa auditor agrees to examine privatized Medicaid savings to see why estimates abruptly tripled
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2018/06/08/iowa-medicaid-privatization-healthcare-state-auditor-mary-mosiman-review-tripled-savings-estimates/684399002/?csp=chromepushIowa's state auditor has agreed to look into the see-sawing estimates of how much Iowa taxpayers are saving by having private companies run the state's $5 billion Medicaid program.
The Department of Human Services last month abruptly tripled their estimate of those annual savings, from $47 million to $140.9 million, without explanation.
The new estimate was still 39 percent less than the $232 million that former Gov. Terry Branstad predicted state taxpayers would be saving by now under his controversial decision to privatize the health care program for 600,000 poor or disabled Iowans.
State Sen. Pam Jochum, an outspoken critic of Medicaid privatization, asked State Auditor Mary Mosiman last month to look into what was going on with the estimates....