Medicaid Backlog Shrinking Health Care Providers Fear Accounting Ordeal

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The state is claiming progress on coping with a backlog of Medicaid payments that left many providers uncompensated until this week after a new computer billing system came on line in the middle of January.

However, while most providers - doctors, dentists, counselors, nursing homes, community support staff and others - have reportedly received a payment this week, many are concerned that millions of dollars in lump-sum interim payments will create an accounting nightmare when it comes time to balance the books.

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Medicaid Backlog Shrinking Health Care Providers Fear Accounting Ordeal

And some providers have still not received any payment at all.

Mary Lou Dyer, director of the Hallowell-based Maine Association of Community Service Providers, said Friday that most member agencies received some payment this week.

"Some are doing pretty well, ...

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