NASHVILLE – A new Tennessee comptroller’s audit contains eight findings with regard to Medicaid charges and other issues at Orange Grove Center, the nearly 70-year-old nonprofit Chattanooga organization that serves adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Auditors estimate as a result, the state’s Medicaid program overpaid the facility by $197,282 from Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2021. The result is the center will see lower Medicaid reimbursements for a time to repay the state’s Medicaid program.
Officials involved with the examination told the Times Free Press that the findings – the main ones include questions about allowable expenses, under-reporting of Medicaid days for clients and the resulting impact on daily reimbursement rates – aren’t unusual.
No allegations of intentional wrongdoing were made by auditors.
“To be frank with you, these are common findings in long-term care facilities,” Regina Robinson, an accountant who was manager of the audit, told the Times Free Press in a telephone interview Thursday. “There was nothing particularly unusual here that you don’t find in other facilities.”