Vice President JD Vance said during a May 13 press conference that he was intensifying attempts to counter Medicaid fraud by investigating state-level units responsible for oversight.
States such as California and Hawaii seemed to lag behind others in combatting fraud, said Vance, whom the president picked in March to lead an anti-fraud task force.
“Now, we have red states and blue states that go after fraud aggressively, but we also unfortunately have some states, mostly blue states, unfortunately, that do not take Medicaid fraud very seriously,” he said.
In response, Vance said the administration would withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid-related payments to California and also consider withholding from other states….