Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program
Home – Political News – Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program news Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program Angelina Delfin • July 24, 2026 Print Administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Sally Pipes, the institute’s president, told the Daily Signal that rooting out fraud should be lawmakers’ top priority. “If lawmakers could make only one thing happen this year, it should be eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse from Medi-Cal, which now covers 15 million Californians at a cost of $220 billion.
- ▪Home – Political News – Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program news Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program Angelina Delfin • July 24, 2026 Print Administrator of the US Centers
- ▪Sally Pipes, the institute’s president, told the Daily Signal that rooting out fraud should be lawmakers’ top priority.
- ▪“If lawmakers could make only one thing happen this year, it should be eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse from Medi-Cal, which now covers 15 million Californians at a cost of $220 billion.
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Home – Political News – Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program news Report: Fraud, Waste Plague California’s $220 Billion Medi-Cal Program Angelina Delfin • July 24, 2026 Print Administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Wisconsin Air National Guard facility at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport on July 8, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Mark Schiefelbein-Pool/Getty Images) (function(){var t=document.querySelector(".wp-block-kadence-dynamichtml"),s=document.currentScript.previousElementSibling;if(t&&s){if("prepend"==="before_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t);else if("prepend"==="after_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t.nextSibling);else…
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