The month of March will be a pivotal one as Minnesota attempts to emerge from the shadow of massive fraud.
The federal government says it is witholding $259 million in Medicaid funding and that the state has 60 days to prove that it has rooted out fraud in existing programs.
This comes at the same time that the temporary commissioner of the state’s Department of Human Services was made the permanent director.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump singled Minnesota out for its fraud scandals, claiming that there had been $19 billion of fraud in Minnesota in recent years. The former Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson estimated that $9 billion could be fraud. But those numbers have never been verified.
Shireen Gandhi was just named the permanent commissioner of DHS last week. She says the verified number so far is at least $300 million.
“So there has been about $300 million…
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