Tag: Medicaid
Minnesota couple indicted in $15 million medical billing fraud scheme
A couple who previously lived in Eden Prairie, Minn., has been charged in a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday, alleging a $15 million scheme...
Minnesota felon charged in $7.3 million fraudulent Medicaid billing scheme
The same month Gov. Tim Walz announced he finally plans to crack down on fraud involving government programs, a previously convicted felon has been...
After losing hundreds of millions, Walz vows to ‘turn the dial’...
After six years in office and hundreds of millions lost to fraud, Gov. Tim Walz announced a new anti-fraud initiative Friday, raising questions about...
Three indicted in Medicaid fraud conspiracy scheme involving treatment center
Three people connected to a Minnesota drug and alcohol treatment center have been charged in federal court with defrauding Medicaid of over $30 million...
Jim Schultz: Minnesota must face the realities of its liberal policies
David Lloyd George, the eventual British prime minister during World War I, once remarked that in the Great War the British military leadership maintained...
State’s ‘PITSTOP-66’ investigation uncovers widespread Medicaid fraud
Last month, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office (AGO) announced a pair of new indictments connected to the ongoing PITSTOP-66 investigation. Charles Omato and LaTonia...
The Healthy Skeptic: Where health care dollars go
Last week, I summarized part of the most recent annual report on national health spending. In this column, the focus is on where the...
The Healthy Skeptic: A look at national health spending
It is useful to understand past components of health spending from multiple perspectives, but it is even more important to examine where that spending...
Tracking Minnesota’s growing fraud problem
(Center of the American Experiment) -- In what will be an ongoing effort to track the ever-growing list of frauds perpetrated against state and...
Five Twin Cities residents charged in over $10M Medicaid fraud
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office has charged five Twin Cities residents in connection to over $10 million in Medicaid fraud, which investigators say they...