{"id":483741,"date":"2026-06-05T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483741\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:39:07","slug":"why-medicare-and-medicaid-fraud-wont-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483741\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Medicare and Medicaid fraud won\u2019t go away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3SSVC26EKVE4VJAYBWQMG5LPB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration has discovered the crisis of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. In the words of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYkVRAeGwqt\/?img_index=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mehmet Oz<\/a>, \u201cthe full weight of the federal government is going after healthcare fraudsters\u2014protecting American families and patients.\u201d Oz has estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Bw4LN9s--c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$100 billion in annual fraud<\/a> in Medicaid alone. His agency recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-announces-aggressive-nationwide-crackdown-fraud-six-month-hospice-home-health-agency-enrollment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a> 800 Los Angeles-based hospices that were paid $1.4 billion for alleged sham services last year.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has discovered the crisis of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. In the words of Centers for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-483741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}