Dr. Oz Threatens To Pull Funding From Minnesota After $1 Billion In Medicaid Funding Was Stolen by Fraudsters

Dr. Oz to Walz: Address Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud or Lose Funding

"The vulnerable Americans who depend on these programs — and the taxpayers who fund them — deserve the truth."

Dr. Oz Threatens to Pull Funding From Minnesota After $1 Billion in Medicaid Funding Was Stolen by Fraudsters

(The Epoch Times)—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) threatened to withhold federal funding from Minnesota after fraudsters allegedly stole more than $1 billion set aside for Medicaid programs. CMS administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz ordered Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to follow a series of guidelines that crack down on the fraud and said that if the state does not comply, it will lose federal money. “Either fix this in 60 days or start look…

Dr. Oz Threatens To Pull Funding From Minnesota After $1 Billion In Medicaid Funding Was Stolen by Fraudsters

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POLITICS: From Somali scams to phantom patients, Democrats keep defrauding us

Democrats have a fraud problem. A big one. And the past few weeks have shown just how much it costs Americans. In November, news broke that Democrats in Minnesota had allowed fraudsters — mostly in the immigrant Somali community — to steal more than a billion dollars from state-managed federal welfare programs. They raided a housing fund, child-nutrition programs and most of all Medicaid. Minnesota Democrats knew about the massive theft, but the…

Dr. Oz to Walz: Clean up Fraud or No Federal Funding

The hospitals and doctors aren’t the only people ripping off the medical system and causing costs to skyrocket (see Item 2 above). The states are also bilking federal taxpayers out of tens of billions of dollars, as we reported last week. No governor is more guilty of this scam than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. So we’d like to congratulate Dr. Mehmet Oz, who administers the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, for threatening to cut off federal a…