The Georgia Board of Regents ordered the audit of all employee’s health insurance dependent coverage on Wednesday, looking to save millions.

Employees will get letters this a month allowing them to voluntarily drop ineligible dependents. Audits of other academia and industry have shown between 8 and 10 percent of covered dependents are not eligible for coverage. With 94,000 people covered under the health plan, 46,000 of them dependents, a 10 percent drop could save the university system $9 million.

“There is no suspicion. First off, it is becoming a general practice in business and higher ed to do audits of these types,” said Tom Scheer, associate vice chancellor for benefits, told the Morris News Service. “Secondarily, it is a major initiative of (regents Chairman Robert) Hatcher . . . We’re not expecting to find a lot of fraud. We’re expecting to find these ineligible dependents due to lack of understanding.”