{"id":494388,"date":"2026-02-27T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:46:07","slug":"red-flags-in-medicaid-pennsylvania-payments-skyrocket-from-5m-to-600m-in-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494388\/","title":{"rendered":"Red flags in Medicaid? Pennsylvania payments skyrocket from $5M to $600M in 7 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Start your morning with The National News Desk as Jan Jeffcoat sits down with Rachel O&#8217;Brien, deputy policy editor for Open the Books, to discuss how the growing healthcare fraud investigations across the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien discusses how medicaid spending has come into focus and a review of state agency payments that has uncovered serious problems and red flags.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (5)<\/p>\n<p>Watch weekday mornings from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST, Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Start your morning with The National News Desk as Jan Jeffcoat sits down with Rachel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-494388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}