Health Care Fraud
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Bonta charges 103 home-care workers in Medi-Cal fraud sweep as federal prosecutors trade blame with Sacramento
The attorney general charged 103 In-Home Supportive Services caregivers with billing Medi-Cal while clients were hospitalized, as federal prosecutors in Los Angeles criticized the state’s oversight.
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Trump administration holds back another $1.2 billion in Medicaid money for California home care
Federal Medicaid officials cited rapid growth in the state’s personal care services as grounds for a third deferral this year, without presenting evidence of fraud, while California says the program keeps older and disabled residents out…
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California’s own software flagged 28,000 Medi-Cal providers as high risk. It followed up on about 2,000.
A new state audit, two federal inspector general reports and the health department’s own figures show how Medi-Cal’s fraud defenses have not kept pace with a program that now costs about $220 billion a year, and…