Minnesota's Medicaid program paid $3.7 million for deceased enrollees

Minnesota’s Medicaid program improperly paid $3.7 million to HMOs to provide health coverage for enrollees who were deceased, a federal audit has found. The Department of Human Services (DHS), which runs Medicaid, pays managed care organizations a flat fee per enrollee to administer health benefits for about 850,000 of the 1.1 million people covered by the program.