mostly due to documentation issues, and that amount ($31 billion or 5% of overall federal payments) does not come close to the hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts proposed to address fraud.

While Republican leaders move forward with proposals to significantly reform Medicaid, some lawmakers are breaking from the party to demand more changes.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has indicted more than 100 people for participating in Medicaid fraud through a sober living homes scandal, which has cost the state an estimated $2.8 billion.

“One of the most common questions I think is important to ask is, ‘Where’s the president on these issues ... Medicaid,” Valadao said. “He said … he would support cutting waste, fraud ...

Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, the agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated fraud allegations. The state’s swift response left patients homeless, ProPublica and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting found.

1. Manishkumar Patel, 44, of Pelham Manor, was sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud, wire fraud, and violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, according to a May 6 Justice Department news release.

The legislation includes work requirements, stricter eligibility checks, citizenship verification and new limits on federal funding for Medicaid to states. It met swift Democratic opposition.

“The question will be, and this is just fair: Are there political issues that are people going ... Nick Wanka, director of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, said the state is short of the number ...

A Louisiana nurse practitioner was convicted by a federal jury for her role in a $2 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Melannie Bachman, 39, of Charleston, South Carolina, is among the patients closely watching the sweeping Republican bill to overhaul Medicaid that’s been brought to the House. She was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer — an aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of the disease — in 2021.