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The Great California Medicaid Grift

Trump’s Deceitful Medicaid Fraud Campaign Comes to California

The Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursement payments to California after officials alleged that the state failed to prosecute fraud in its own Me...

Newsom Expanded Medi-Cal While California Kids Lost Local Pediatric Beds, Report Reveals

Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom expanding Medi-Cal to record levels, community hospitals across California have been closing pediatric inpatient units, according to a new report from Def...

California charges 21 in Medi-Cal hospice fraud case

Fourteen hospice firms allegedly used to bill under stolen identities

Trump Administration Will Withhold $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California

Vice President JD Vance said the state had not done enough to fight fraud in the public health insurance program.

CMS to withhold $1.3B in Medicaid funds from California, puts state officials on notice about fraud

Just hours after the Trump administration announced action against fraud in the hospice and home health spaces, Vice President JD Vance put state regulators on notice that the feds...

Man linked to Medi-Cal healthcare fraud arrested in El Centro

EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA) - A major healthcare fraud takedown, and investigators say the scheme may have ties to a man who owns a health care agency in Imperial County. During a pre...

Gavin Newsom, Early Champion of Single-Payer, Moderates in the Face of Fiscal Limits

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who campaigned on single-payer, has called healthcare a human right. In practice, however, the potential presidential candidate emphasizes safety net...

Personas mayores inmigrantes pierden la cobertura de Medicare a pesar de haber aportado por años

La ley One Big Beautiful Bill Act del Partido Republicano, firmada en julio pasado por el presidente Donald Trump, prohíbe que ciertas categorías de inmigrantes con presencia legal...

Officials say $1.3 billion in Medicaid money to California will be deferred over suspicions of fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday announced new steps in the Trump administration's initiative to root out fraud in federal health programs, including a $1.3 b...

Immigrant seniors lose Medicare coverage despite paying for it

Rosa María Carranza leaned forward to hold a 3-year-old's back as the girl climbed a rock in the forested hills of northeast Oakland.

CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in California

For the second time in the 60-year history of the Medicaid program, a CMS deferral of federal matching funds has been announced by the Vice President of the United States at a Whit...

Trump administration will withhold $1.3B in in Medicaid payments to California

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will withhold $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid payments from California, Vice President JD Vance announced on Wednesday, saying the state had...

MEDI-CAL MELTDOWN: Trump Team Freezes $1.3B Over California Fraud

The Trump Administration is turning up the heat on California, freezing a staggering $1.

SoCal: Orange County Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting $270 Million in Fraudulent Claims to Medi-Cal in 11 Months: DOJ

A man in Orange County, California, pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scheme to steal $270 million in bogus Medi-Cal claims in 11 months, the DOJ announced on Tuesday. The post SoC...

ECRMC receives $11 million California Distressed Hospital grant

According to a press release, the grant will help ECRMC strengthen medical services across the Imperial Valley, and reinforce the community's access to top-tier healthcare. The pos...

CalOptima tái ký hợp đồng với 4 bệnh viện, hàng ngàn bệnh nhân Medi-Cal hưởng lợi

Sau hai năm tranh cãi, CalOptima cho bốn bệnh viện thuộc Prime Healthcare quay lại hệ thống sẽ hỗ trợ chăm sóc y tế cho hàng ngàn cư dân. The post Ca...

Democrats Pushing Free Healthcare For Illegal Aliens In California Midterms? | Drew Hernandez

 Woke Democrat California gubernatorial candidate and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is facing scrutiny after defending taxpayer-funded health care for...

How a California crook committed $178 million worth of health care fraud — in just one year

A California man pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing millions of dollars in taxpayer funds through his participation in a prescription drug fraud scheme, the Department of Justice...

Officials say $1.3 billion in Medicaid money to California will be deferred over suspicions of fraud

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday announced new steps in the Trump administration's initiative to root out fraud in federal health programs, including a $1.3 billion deferral in...

MEDIA BLACKOUT? ABC, NBC Silent As $200M Medicare Scam Rocks California: MRC Report

A major Medicare fraud scandal inside California’s hospice system is drawing scrutiny not just for the money lost, but for how little attention it has received from major televisio...

Colossal hospice fraud scheme cost California millions, officials say amid intensifying Trump feud

Prosecutors say the massive hospice fraud scheme bilked California's medical system of $267 million. Charges are brought against 21 people.

Trump Admin Pauses Hospice Medicare Enrollments, Withholds $1.3 Billion From California Medicaid

The Trump administration announced a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home health agencies while freezing billions of dollars in federal Medicaid pa...

States Eye Aid to Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

THURSDAY, May 7, 2026 — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, just outside Los Angeles, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care,...