KEY POINTS
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is ramping up attention to healthcare fraud.
- After Minnesota’s scandal, the Trump administration targeted mostly Democratic states.
- Medicaid fraud usually involves providers, not low-income people trying to game the system.
Is Medicaid rife with fraud, as the Trump administration suggests? It’s a claim that was bolstered in late 2025 with news that Minnesota’s Medicaid program paid millions for fraudulent services including adult day care for people with disabilities, home health services and autism therapy, among others.
That discovery put new energy — and more headlines — into the search for Medicaid scofflaws.
The responsibility for ensuring program integrity day to day falls largely on states.
Experts agree that it’s “really hard” to measure if a state is doing well at catching Medicaid fraud. While every state receives federal…
CLICK HERE to read the FULL Medicaid fraud crackdown or political punishment? – Deseret News article.
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