Federal healthcare fraud crackdown intensifies with CMS withholding billions in Medicaid funds from states like Minnesota and California in 2026.

The Trump administration is doubling down on its fraud-fighting crusade as it seeks to show that it is an attentive steward ...

Vice President JD Vance said the administration will audit states’ Medicaid Fraud Control Units and threatened to “turn off” ...

The highest nationwide estimate puts U.S. fraud losses at $521 billion. Even if all of that could be recouped, it would amount to less than a third of the 2025 deficit of $1.775 trillion. See the ...

Auditors say fraud costs are estimated to run into the hundreds of billions of dollars each year across U.S. government programs.

Fraud infests federal healthcare programs. The main reason: no one is spending their own money. This leaves federal taxpayers on the hook for corrupt and incompetent management. Medicaid and Obamacare ...

The White House is kicking off President Donald Trump’s “war on fraud” with a focus on federally-funded benefits like housing, food and cash assistance programs. Among the tactics that a new ...

The federal government is hemorrhaging around $1 trillion per year due to fraud, Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services & LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government, said while testifying at a ...

Investigators have found a large underworld of fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs. In one scandal, 57 people were convicted of stealing benefits from a children’s food program. In another scandal, ...

ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz introduced his anti-fraud package on Thursday, Feb. 26, a day after the federal government announced it would pause millions of dollars in Medicaid funds. “We’re kind of at a ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The White House is kicking off President Donald Trump’s “war on fraud” with a focus on federally-funded benefits like housing, food and ...