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‘We Are Going To Turn Off The Money’: Vance’s Anti-Fraud Taskforce To Make States Prove They Prosecute Fraud

Vance announced that the government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California for its leaders’ neglect.

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THE WHITE HOUSE — Vice President J.D. Vance announced Wednesday that his anti-fraud task force is going to force states to prove that they actually prosecute fraud, threatening to strip billions from state legal coffers if they do not comply.

Each state has a taxpayer-funded Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), which is specifically designed to fund investigations and prosecutions of Medicaid fraud. Vance said that the states will need to prove they are “aggressively” going after fraud, and if they are not, they will be stripped of all MFCU money so the federal government can do their jobs for them.

“We have red states and blue states that go after fraud aggressively, but we also unfortunately have some states, mostly blue states, unfortunately, that do not take Medicaid fraud very seriously,” Vance said at a press briefing in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Vance clarified that the task force will target the funding of impotent prosecution teams, not money allocated to program recipients.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, vice chair of the anti-fraud task force, said states allowing fraud are a “result of decades of corruption, particularly in blue states,” noting that many of them “have taken tens of billions of dollars to pay lawyers” to prosecute fraud, but have little or nothing to show for it.

“When the states just take this money and turn it into a jobs program for blue state lawyers, they are effectively participating in the elder abuse in those states, because the American people turn over their money to these state programs to protect their parents and their grandparents from elder........

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