Some business owners who were cut off from certain Medicaid programs are avoiding telling clients as they wait for an appeals process to play out. On May 31, the state cut roughly two-thirds of the approximately 5,500 organizations providing services in Medicaid programs deemed high risk for fraud. So DHS allowed organizations to keep billing for services to clients if they appealed their termination. About 550 Medicaid service providers have either not appealed their disenrollment or were terminated for other reasons, according to DHS. Meanwhile, the state has extended a halt on the enrollment of new Medicaid providers for services with high fraud risk.