Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez pushed back Thursday against claims leveled a day earlier by Vice President JD Vance that the state isn’t serious about combating Medicaid fraud.
“Hawaii has not ignored Medicaid fraud,” Lopez said in a statement, suggesting that Vance presented an unfair assessment of results achieved recently by the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit under the state Department of the Attorney General. The unit is largely funded by the federal
government.
Vance, who chairs an anti-fraud task force that President Donald Trump formed in March, said Wednesday during a White House news conference that Hawaii’s MFCU produced no Medicaid fraud indictments or convictions over the past few years because program administrators don’t take it seriously.
“They don’t think that fraud is a big enough problem,” he said. “They don’t care about protecting resources, and they don’t…
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