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Agency official says Medicaid fraud has deprived new mothers and infants of care
Summary
An agency official used Medicaid support for new mothers and a personal reference to a two-week-old newborn to illustrate how fraud diverts resources away from intended beneficiaries and cited prosecutions with DOJ.
An agency official said fraud can leave vulnerable people without services, using Medicaid support for new mothers and newborn infants as an example.
"I think an example that is particularly close to my heart because we have a 2 week old newborn at home is a program that we set up through the Medicaid program to actually provide high quality health care to new moms and to newborn infants," the agency official said, adding that investigators have identified cases "where they have taken from this program, not provided an ounce of service to a new mom or a young baby, and enriched themselves by literally taking money from the medical care of newborn infants." The speaker described that conduct as "despicable."
The official said those examples had been pursued with the Department of Justice but did not provide case names, locations, or specific outcomes in the transcript; such particulars were not specified. The remarks emphasized program-level harm rather than identifying individual defendants or firms.
