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Lawmaker urges hearing on pardons and Medicaid fraud controls, says enforcement should increase not coverage cuts
Summary
The witness told the Senate committee that pardons and funding cuts to fraud-control units weakens fraud enforcement; he said he supports stronger penalties and audits and requested a hearing on pardons of executives tied to large false Medicare claims.
The lawmaker said he supports strengthening fraud enforcement—investigations, audits, penalties—and said he has introduced legislation addressing upcoding. But he argued that using fraud as a rationale to shrink coverage is misguided and harmful.
He urged the committee to hold a hearing on administration actions that he described as protecting fraudsters, saying the administration had ‘‘cut off funding for Medicaid fraud control units’’ and pardoned an executive linked in testimony to $205,000,000 in false Medicare claims.
