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Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported record recoveries of about $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2024, driven largely by California’s unit, which accounted for roughly $513 million of that total (...
Medicare fraud manifests unevenly across the country but the public record available in these sources does not provide a single, authoritative per‑state dollar tally; instead, enforcement actions and ...
California’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) was the single biggest driver of the year‑over‑year surge in recoveries, reporting roughly $513–544 million in recoveries tied to recent review periods ...
Recipients can report suspected SNAP benefit fraud or trafficking through multiple channels: national USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) hotlines, online complaint forms, written mail, and state‑l...
Prosecutions of Minnesota Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) providers between 2014 and 2018 revealed repeated, relatively low‑tech fraud techniques—most commonly padding attendance and billing for ...
The clearest state-level finding in the available HHS‑OIG and DOJ reporting is that California’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit produced the largest single-state recovery noted in recent federal summarie...
Multiple layers of authority can investigate a sitting Minnesota governor: state law-enforcement and oversight bodies led by the Minnesota Attorney General and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, fed...
If you suspect a medical or wellness scam, available federal reporting pathways include the HHS-OIG hotline for Medicare/Medicaid fraud (start online) and tip portals named by agencies such as the FBI...
Federal law enforcement and health agencies provide criminal, civil and administrative avenues to pursue large-scale healthcare fraud and protect beneficiaries—most notably the 2025 National Health Ca...
Public records and federal press releases show substantial but not fully consistent counts for the major Minnesota fraud probes: Feeding Our Future has been the subject of large multi-defendant indict...
Platforms and regulators are reacting to AI‑generated health fraud with a mix of technical mitigations, disclosure rules, targeted enforcement and evolving regulatory frameworks — a hybrid approach th...
Federal regulators, state attorneys general, and major platforms each have roles and tools to flag and remove online health scam ads: consumers can report fraud directly to the FTC, to agency-specific...
The Trump administration’s 2018 “zero-tolerance” policy directed federal prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against all adults who crossed the southwestern border unlawfully, a shift grounded in e...
The largest healthcare fraud enforcement actions across 2024–2025 were dominated by one massive, coordinated criminal initiative—the 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown—and by large civil False C...
Prosecutors in recent major fraud actions relied on documentary payroll records, false identity documents, loan applications and billing claims, and government and banking records to allege fraud and ...
Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported $1.4 billion in recoveries for FY 2024, driven in large part by California’s MFCU which recovered roughly $513 million, producing about $3.46 returned for...
State investigators separate ordinary billing errors from organized Medicaid fraud by using data analytics, provider audits, criminal probes, and Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs); federal-led oper...
Federal responses to health and wellness scams are split across consumer-protection, public-health, and law-enforcement agencies: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handles deceptive marketing and con...