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Attorney general asks for staff to expand Medicaid fraud work and details multi‑year recoveries
Summary
Attorney General Keith Ellison told the House State Government Finance and Policy Committee his office seeks roughly $390,000 to expand its Medicaid fraud work (roughly 75% federally matched), and described the attorney general's recent recoveries and enforcement activity across antitrust, consumer protection and wage-theft cases.
Attorney General Keith Ellison told the House State Government Finance and Policy Committee on April 1 that his office seeks additional resources to expand investigations and prosecutions of Medicaid fraud and described a series of civil and criminal recoveries the office has obtained in recent years.
Ellison said the Medicaid-fraud expansion request is $390,000 in state funds for the biennium; the program has a substantial federal match and the state would pay about 25% of the cost. Laura Sales, director of government relations for the attorney general, told lawmakers the request would support nine staff (one attorney, seven investigators and one support position).
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