The PERM Corrective-Action Gap: Fixing the Error Is Not the Same as Proving the Fix Worked
Perspective | GAO’s new review of Medicaid eligibility errors raises a larger management question: are states using PERM’s error evidence to prove that corrective actions actually change the result?
PERM Measures Medicaid and CHIP, but H.R. 1 Puts Them on Different Fiscal Paths
Perspective | The same eligibility-control failure can affect both programs, but Medicaid's 3% disallowance threshold and newly constrained good-faith waiver create a different federal recovery regime.
Reference | Primary federal resources for states managing two active PERM timelines: an eligibility-only RY2027 cycle and the RY2028 Cycle 1 sampled-claim review period already underway.
Tool | An operational guide for state Medicaid leaders moving potential PERM findings from rapid factual review through resolution, corrective action, and verified closure.
Tool | An operational framework for state Medicaid leaders using internal eligibility sampling to identify accuracy, audit-defensibility, and control failures before federal selection.
2027 Is Not the Work-Requirement PERM Test. It May Be the Rehearsal.
Perspective | CMS will make RY2027 an eligibility-only PERM cycle while states prepare for new Medicaid community-engagement requirements. The timelines do not directly overlap—but the operational lesson does.
