{"id":351,"date":"2011-09-29T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2011-09-29T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:56:00","slug":"medicaid-funds-allegedly-misused-u-of-l-doctors-used-4-8-million-in-medicaid-money-for-bonuses-shaughnessy-says-the-courier-journal-courier-journal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid funds allegedly misused: U of L doctors used $4.8 million in Medicaid money for bonuses, Shaughnessy says | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medicaid funds allegedly misused: U of L doctors used $4.8 million in Medicaid money for bonuses, Shaughnessy says | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Doctors at the University of Louisville medical school used about $4.8 million in state Medicaid funds to pay themselves \u201cfinancial bonuses\u201d \u2014 money that was supposed to be used for indigent care, state Sen. Tim Shaughnessy says.<\/p>\n

And they used another $5.2 million for an electronic records system that would make U of L doctors eligible for additional bonuses from the federal government, according to new details of a controversial transaction that Shaughnessy said he recently obtained from Attorney General Jack Conway\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Conway said Wednesday that the office determined only that the $4.8 million was compensation for U of L doctors. But Shaughnessy insisted that Conway\u2019s staff described the money as \u201cbonuses\u201d at a recent meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked,\u2019\u2019 said Shaughnessy, a Louisville Democrat who was the first to publicly question a transfer of about $30 million in surplus health funds in 2008 and 2009 from Passport Health Plan to U of L, University Physicians Associates, or UPA, and others represented on Passport\u2019s board.
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Under a settlement Conway announced in July, UPA will repay the state $9 million over five years. Other groups that received funds from Passport\u2019s $30 million transfer agreed to repay the funds according to various schedules. They include U of L, University Medical Center and local hospitals that provided capital to start Passport.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>But Shaughnessy said the repayment doesn\u2019t address his basic concern \u2014 that U of L\u2019s board wasn\u2019t involved in major financial transactions involving groups with which it is affiliated, including Passport, UPA and the U of L medical center.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cThere was no involvement of the U of L Board of Trustees,\u201d Shaughnessy said. \u201cHow did these millions of dollars get allocated without any involvement of the board?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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