ICE will be allowed to access personal information from the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including names, addresses, ethnicities, and Social Security numbers, under a newly signed agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Pakistani national in connection with a sweeping $650 million fraud scheme that exploited Arizona’s Medicaid program for Native Americans, billing the state for addiction treatment services that were never provided or medically unnecessary.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged four dozen people in a scheme to illegally resell prescription drugs obtained by Medicaid recipients, reports CNN.com. The scheme involved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs obtained from Medicaid recipients. The accused bought the drugs at discounted rates and then resold them through a…
