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BCA merges fraud units, coordinates with DHS; autism provider audits and Feeding Our Future ties under review
Summary
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has combined state financial-fraud resources and said it will coordinate with DHS and the attorney general’s Medicaid fraud unit on criminal cases. Committee members pressed DHS about audits and payment withholds for autism-service providers connected to recent indictments.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has combined the Commerce Department’s fraud bureau with its own financial crimes section and is moving to a single, statewide unit to investigate government-program fraud, Superintendent Drew Evans told lawmakers on March 17.
Evans said the newly aligned financial crimes and fraud section, completed on Feb. 7, will focus on insurance fraud, wage-theft and misclassification crimes, traditional financial crimes and state-program fraud. The unit will accept criminal referrals when prosecutors or investigators identify credible evidence of criminal fraud, and Evans said investigators will coordinate with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit when suspected Medicaid criminal fraud arises.
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