Medicaid program; reduction in error rate tolerance; Medicaid quality control program--HCFA. Interim final rule with comment period.

This interim final rule implements the provisions of section 133 of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-248). These regulations provide for disallowance of Federal financial participation to States whose eligibility payment error rate for Medicaid, as measured by the Medicaid quality control system, exceeds 3 percent for the period April 1 through September 30, 1983, and for each fiscal year thereafter. The regulations further provide for HCFA to project a payment error rate for each State and to reduce the State's quarterly estimate of expenditures if the anticipated error rate exceeds the 3-percent national standard.