Trump administration cuts off funding to New York fraud unit: ‘Enough is enough’

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is cutting off federal funding for New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, arguing the office has failed to adequately prosecute Medicaid fraud despite overseeing one of the nation’s largest programs.In a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James, Department of Health and Human Services officials said New York’s anti-fraud unit has significantly underperformed compared with similar offices across the country. Recommended Stories Woman who wrote book on healthcare fraud sentenced in $136 million Medicare scheme FDA to allow Zyn nicotine pouches to be marketed as less harmful than cigarettes Medicare patients can get GLP-1s as of July 1 “The New York MFCU was the poorest-performing Unit by a wide margin among similar-sized Units,”…

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