The Maryland Department of Health failed to adequately track federal reimbursements it received during the height of the pandemic, leading to more than $1 billion in unaccounted-for funds, according to an audit made public Tuesday.
At the end of fiscal 2022, the department could not account for $3.5 billion in reimbursed funds the agency should have received from the federal government, according to the report published by the state Office of Legislative Audits. By April, the agency had recovered $2.1 billion of those federal funds, leaving $1.4 billion of those funds that should have been reimbursed undocumented.
Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Wednesday during an unrelated public meeting that the audit “raises significant concerns about how finances were documented and handled at the Department of Health during the previous administration.”
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