Medicaid funding and services are administered by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), Medical Assistance Administration, except for the nursing home program, which is administered by the Aging and Adult Services Administration.
Medicaid covered services include hospital care, skilled nursing home care, residential adult family care services, and professional services provided by physicians and laboratories. Washington Medicaid also includes hospice, mental health, dental services, and eyeglasses.
Providers include doctors, nurses, dentists, clinics, ambulance and transportation, companies, hospitals, nursing homes, adult family homes, boarding homes, laboratories, pharmacies, home health care providers, and medical equipment suppliers. For more information: Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
There are two types of Medicaid fraud: Medicaid Provider fraud and Medicaid Client fraud.
- The Office of the Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigates Provider Fraud.
- The Division of Fraud Investigations (DFI) investigates Client Fraud.
To report Medicaid Provider Fraud: Fighting and Reporting Medicaid Fraud
To report Medicaid Client Fraud: DFI Online Complaint Form, or call the Welfare Fraud Hotline at 1-800-562-6906.
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