The expansion of the All Kids health insurance program cost Illinois more than $74 million in unpaid premiums last year, the state auditor general reported Thursday.
In addition, All Kids paid the medical bills of thousands of children and young adults who no longer qualified for the program, while misclassifying thousands of other children whose coverage would have been eligible for federal reimbursement, Auditor General William G. Holland reported.
Many of the same problems were identified in a 2009 audit of the program.
The state's KidCare child health insurance program was expanded in 2006 to include uninsured children who had previously been ineligible, making …
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