The Martin Luther King Community Hospital in Los Angeles on July 26, 2022. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters
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Is California doing enough to curtail Medi-Cal fraud?
The state auditor doesn’t think so.
A report released Thursday by Grant Parks, the state auditor, suggests the Department of Health Care Services is ill-equipped to stop pervasive abuse in Medi-Cal, a program that serves about 14 million Californians and pays out $200 billion annually.
The report described a “history of concern” about the department’s oversight of Medi?Cal providers and classified it as “high-risk” for fraud, waste and abuse. The Department was first given the designation in 2007 for other reasons, including concerns about organizational restructuring and policymakers’ calls for increased…
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