In its latest effort to crack down on fraud in federal healthcare programs, the Trump administration is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday.
The measure, which follows the deferral of more than $350 million in Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota earlier this year, was among several anti-fraud measures the administration unveiled Wednesday.
The others include reviewing every state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is tasked with investigating and prosecuting fraud among Medicaid providers, and placing a six-month nationwide moratorium on new enrollment of hospice and home health providers in Medicare.
While the administration has been criticized for focusing its anti-fraud efforts primarily on Democratic-led states, Vance insisted that its intentions are not political in nature.
“We want to protect…
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