VP Vance on Medicaid Programs: We’re Sending Letters That Will Require Them to Show That They’re Aggressively Prosecuting Medicaid Fraud

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VANCE: “Today we are sending — across 50 Medicaid programs, we are sending letters that will require them to show that they are effectively and aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud in their states. And if they do not, if they do not aggressively prosecute Medicaid fraud, we are going to turn off the money that goes to these anti-fraud units. And I will say a couple things about this. You may think, obviously, this is a Republican administration. We’re all proud Republicans up here. You may think that this is purely a red state or blue state issue. That’s actually not true. We see Medicaid fraud issues in Ohio, the state that I used to represent in the Ohio — in the United States Senate. We also see Medicaid issues, fraud issues in a state like Maryland, which is obviously a very blue state, but both Ohio and Maryland have worked with us to take this issue seriously, they’ve worked with the guys behind me, they’ve worked with our entire team to make sure that they take fraud seriously.”