Dr. Oz freezes $1.2B in California Medicaid
A home-care program in California that grew 24% over three years, twice the pace seen elsewhere, is what Lucas ties to Dr. Oz holding back another $1.2B in California Medicaid. The source calls that growth a "boom that doesn’t make sense," and the funding won't be released while the state has to show the claims hold up. Which leaves Newsom answering for where the money actually went.
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In addition to other health care fraudsters who were purportedly offering medical services to people in need, but were themselves just running fraud schemes. That is unacceptable. And we are moving full speed ahead to bring accountability to those who are treating patients and are most vulnerable as dollar bills. You know, I also know that the Trump administration now, from our understanding, is withholding $1.2 billion in Medicaid funding from California. Essentially, you guys are seeing really abnormalities in the number of people signing up for programs like senior daycare centers or care centers for the disabled. Is that right? So we're seeing abnormalities in data across the country and in California. That's how we find a lot of our cases, is where we see, for instance, hospice centers have a very high degree of billing far outside the realm of usual for a hospice practice. So what the Trump administration is doing is they're making common-sense solutions, bringing common-sense solutions to make sure that the money does not go to the fraudsters at the front end, and then where someone pierces through those front end security protocols, the DOJ has a prosecutor waiting for those fraudsters. Can you tell me more about
