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May 29, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette:
The current talking point made by Republicans is that they are only cutting waste and fraud from the Medicaid program. There is certainly significant Medicaid fraud, but the reality is that fraud committed by Medicaid recipients is a drop in the bucket compared to fraud committed by medical providers and practices. Most of this fraud consists of billing Medicaidfor services or treatments that were not provided, or billing for more expensive treatments than those actually used. A quick look at the federal cases of Medicaid fraud for 2024 (https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/ health
-care-fraud-unit/2024national-hcf-case-summaries) totaled $515 million, and all of these cases were against providers. There is not a single case against recipients.
Click on the Justice Dept link: Page not found Updated May 30, 2025
Republicans should be we aware of the corporate fraud with Medicare and Medicaid, considering that one of their own senators, Rick Scott, was CEO of a company that the DOJ-scandal-re found committed $1.7 billion dollars in Medicare fraud. Rick Scott's connection to massive Medicare fraud scandal resurfaces
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