SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A District Court judge has ruled in favor of an Alamogordo behavioral health agency accused by the state of overbilling Medicaid.
The Counseling Center filed a lawsuit in June saying the Human Services Department did not tell them what they had done wrong before cutting their funding.
Last week, a New Mexico District Court judge reversed the department’s ruling that the center owed $379,000 to the state.
The center was the first of the providers to later be cleared of fraud by the state attorney general, but then the Human Service Department determined the agency had been overpaid.
One other nonprofit cleared by the attorney general has a pending appeal before a different judge to the department’s decision that it owes $127,000 because of overbilling.
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