Massive Medicaid fraud scheme puts Minnesota’s federal funding at risk — and fallout could widen
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Governor Tim Walz must implement anti-fraud measures within 60 days or risk losing federal Medicaid funding following alleged widespread program abuse in Minnesota.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
Chris Edwards, the Kilts Family Chair in Fiscal Studies at the libertarian think-tank the Cato Institute, said that federal-state funding programs are ripe grounds for fraudulent activity.
"Federal aid-to-state programs are especially vulnerable to fraud and scams because the Feds mainly pay for them," Edwards said in a Tuesday email to Fox News Digital. "The states administer and they care little about waste because the Feds are paying. The states would have more incentive to run efficient programs if they were funded by state taxes. The states must balance their budgets every year, so politicians must make tradeoffs and focus on efficiency."
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