Federal withholds $1.3B in California Medicaid payments over hospice fraud crackdown
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The White House, via CMS, is withholding $1.3 billion in California’s Medicaid reimbursements over alleged hospice-fraud gaps—the largest deferral in CMS history—while also pausing new hospice and home-health provider enrollments and pressuring the state to show patients actually received services, in a continuing feud over hospice oversight.
- White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California Politico
- Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion Medicaid payments to California NBC News
- Vance to States: Address Fraud or Lose Federal Medicaid Funding WSJ
- US to defer $1.3 billion in Medicaid funds for California, Vance says Reuters
- JD Vance’s Jaw-Dropping Ultimatum to Every State Revealed The Daily Beast
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