mostly due to documentation issues, and that amount ($31 billion or 5% of overall federal payments) does not come close to the hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts proposed to address fraud.

Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, the agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated fraud ...

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has indicted more than 100 people for participating in Medicaid fraud through a sober ...

The legislation includes work requirements, stricter eligibility checks, citizenship verification and new limits on federal ...

Trump's critics have called this wishful thinking, and have refuted claims of widespread fraud in programs like Social Security. But in the case of Medicare and Medicaid, which together make up ...

Guess which demographic is more likely to be roaming Congress? Throughout those halls, references to Medicaid fraud and waste make their way into talking points, echoing the “welfare queen ...

A Louisiana nurse practitioner was convicted by a federal jury for her role in a $2 million Medicare fraud scheme.

1. Manishkumar Patel, 44, of Pelham Manor, was sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud, wire fraud, and violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, according to a May 6 ...

Rep. Hal Rogers’ 5th Congressional District has the 11th-most people on Medicaid. Excluding children covered by Medicaid, it ...

“One of the most common questions I think is important to ask is, ‘Where’s the president on these issues ... Medicaid,” Valadao said. “He said … he would support cutting waste, fraud ...

on Tuesday said one controversial proposal to cut federal Medicaid funding was off the ... had been made on one of the most hot-button issues facing the far-reaching package.