OLA Performance Audit — DHS Personal Care Assistance (PCA) Program Oversight

Source: Office of the Legislative Auditor, Minnesota · Document date: 2020-03-01 · Type: Audit Report

OLA performance audit of DHS oversight of the Personal Care Assistance (PCA) program — the second-largest Minnesota Medicaid program by spending. Identifies field-audit attendance gaps, EVV implementation delays, and PCA-agency vetting failures.

Significance: Direct underpinning for the field-audit-attendance, field-audit-effectiveness, and PCA-program-risk investigations. Quantifies the field-audit attendance shortfall and the EVV implementation lag that enabled the PCA-program fraud documented in the small-providers and high-risk-programs analyses.

Tags: OLA, audit, PCA, personal care assistance, field audit, EVV, DHS oversight