For Immediate Release May 25, 2025 Contact: Taylor Haulsee WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined CNN’s State of the Union, Fox News’ Fox News Sunday, and CBS News’ Face the Nation to discuss the historic, House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act and outlined the necessity of sending the final bill to President Trump’s desk by July 4. Watch Speaker Johnson on CNN here, Fox News here,| Speaker of the House Mike Johnson - Leadership For A Strong America
Download PDF The Medicaid money laundering apparatus starts with financing gimmicks—provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers (IGTs)—that states use as its share of Medicaid funding. States then obtain large federal funds without any actual state contribution. States use this funding to make large payments to politically powerful providers. During the Biden administration, Medicaid money laundering exploded,...| Paragon Health Institute
Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs or Units) investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse or neglect. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) is the designated Federal agency that oversees and annually recertifies and approves Federal funding for each MFCU. For this data snapshot, OIG analyzed the annual data on case outcomes (such as convictions; civil settlements and judgments; and recoveries) that 53 MFCUs submitted to OIG for f...| Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Healt...
Efforts to combat fraud were consolidated and strengthened under Public Law 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Act established a comprehensive program to combat fraud committed against all health plans, both public and private. The legislation required the establishment of a national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC), under the joint direction of the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Se...| Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Healt...
Last week the House of Representatives, by the narrowest of margins (215-214), passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1. The bill includes unprecedented changes to Medicaid summarized he…| Center For Children and Families
Asked about broader spending cuts … Trump said we’ll “love and cherish” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the last of which insures more than 70 million Americans. “We’re not going to do anyt…| Center For Children and Families
“States are abusing federal Medicaid policy. There is an enormous amount of waste, fraud and abuse in the program.” – Brian Blase, President, Paragon Health Institute, as reported in Stat (Ja…| Center For Children and Families
[Read Andy Schneider’s most recent blog about fraud against Medicaid: The Improper Use of Improper Payments.] As my colleague Edwin Park has explained, capping federal Medicaid payments to st…| Center For Children and Families
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s Georgia Pathways to Coverage program has seen anemic enrollment while chalking up millions in start-up costs — largely in technology and consulting fees. Critics say the money’s being wasted on a costly and ineffective alternative to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.| KFF Health News
Editor’s Note: CCF published a brief explaining the final bill that was signed into law on July 4, 2025. In the early morning of Thursday, May 22nd, on a 215-214 vote, House Republicans passe…| Center For Children and Families
