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Committee member accuses administration of failing to halt Medicaid payments amid fraud concerns
Summary
A committee member on the House Committee on Natural Resources questioned whether the administration stopped payments after fraud concerns in Medicaid home- and community-based services and nonemergency medical transportation, and accused the administration and attorney general of inaction, saying "last week is 400,000 children without health care."
A committee member at a meeting of the House Committee on Natural Resources challenged the administration over whether it had stopped payments after fraud concerns surfaced in Medicaid home- and community-based services and nonemergency medical transportation, and accused the administration and the attorney general of failing to act.
The committee member asked whether the administration had halted payments when fraud concerns were raised in those programs. The transcript supplied with the record contains a single speaker label for all segments, making it unclear in some lines which statements were questions and which were replies; where the transcript labels a line as coming from the committee member, this article attributes those words to "the committee member." The record includes the statement, "last week is 400,000 children without health care," presented in the transcript by the speaker labeled in the record as the committee member.
The committee member also accused officials of poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars and said the administration had been "defrauded," arguing that continuing payments to suspected fraudsters amounted to wasted funds. They said the attorney general and the administration "do nothing about fraud," and criticized political opponents by saying the opposing position was to "keep the money flowing." The committee member urged stopping payments and "recalculating."
The transcript furnished with this record does not show a formal motion, vote, or departmental response recorded under a different speaker label; no staff or administration representative is identified by name or role in the provided segments. The record therefore does not document any formal action or directive resulting from the exchange.
Because the transcript uses a single speaker label across the exchange, the article avoids attributing apparent replies to any other person unless the transcript explicitly identifies them. The committee did not record any vote or formal motion in the provided segments; next procedural steps or responses from the administration are not specified in the record.
