Vice President J.D. Vance said Wednesday that his fraud task force is cracking down on California.
“The federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from the state of California. And the simple reason is because the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously,” Vance said in a videopostedto X.
VP Vance announces deferment of $1.3B in Medicaid reimbursement to California in fraud crackdown: “California has not taken fraud very seriously…There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously.”pic.twitter.com/E6hCMx3fC2
“There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously,” Vance said.
“But also you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don’t even need. Sometimes they’ve had drugs put into their bodies that they don’t need because fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescriptions and false administration of medication,” he continued.
Vance said that “fraudulent healthcare providers are getting rich by giving people medications they don’t even need.”
“It’s a defrauding of the American taxpayer, but it’s a violation of the trust that should exist between every American and the people who prescribe them medications,” he added.
Vance said funding to the state Medicaid Fraud Control Units could be frozen “if they do not aggressively prosecute Medicaid fraud,” according toNBC News.
“And if we continue to find problems, we can turn off other resources within their state Medicaid programs as well,” he said.
“Now, we have red states and blue states that go after fraud aggressively. But we also unfortunately have some states — mostly blue states, unfortunately — that do not take Medicaid fraud very seriously,” he said.
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