Trump admin freezing over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California
The Trump administration is deferring over $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of its ongoing healthcare fraud crackdown, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.
Kennedy said during a press conference that HHS is “not sending Medicaid or Medicare dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately.” The payment deferrals aim to advance the Trump administration’s ongoing “effort to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid and safeguard federal taxpayer dollars,” HHS said in a news release.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said during the news conference that fraudsters’ “days of stealing from the American taxpayer are over.”
“In Minnesota and California, our reviews are going back to just over the last few years, [turning] up the same recurring theme again and again, every single quarter: claims in the same high-risk categories that the states have not yet been able to document fully,” Oz added.
Kennedy said during a press conference that HHS is “not sending Medicaid or Medicare dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately.” The payment deferrals aim to advance the Trump administration’s ongoing “effort to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid and safeguard federal taxpayer dollars,” HHS said in a news release.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said during the news conference that fraudsters’ “days of stealing from the American taxpayer are over.”
“In Minnesota and California, our reviews are going back to just over the last few years, [turning] up the same recurring theme again and again, every single quarter: claims in the same high-risk categories that the states have not yet been able to document fully,” Oz added.
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