Dr. Mehmet Oz says federal law requires voter ID be offered to Medicaid enrollees during investigation into alleged widespread healthcare fraud
By Catholics for Catholics
Fraud runs amok in Medicaid and Medicare.
That is according to Dr. Mehmet OZ, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On Tuesday, the doctor detailed what he described as the “weaponization of fraud” in Minnesota, estimating that Medicaid fraud nationwide totals roughly “$100 billion.”
Appearing on “The Katie Miller Podcast,” Oz was asked by host Katie Miller what the “most shocking thing” he saw taking place in Minnesota during his investigation into the alleged widespread fraud in the state, according to a story by Fox News.
“The weaponization of fraud,” he responded. “When you’re elected to office, there’s some rules that you’re obliged to follow, but there’s always the opportunity for political patronage.”
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In addition, the former host of the “Dr. Oz Show” spoke about how “doing favors for people” can provide profitable prospects for those working in state health departments in ways that are “not always transparent to the voter.” He added that under federal law, once someone is signed up for Medicaid, they must also be offered a “voter ID.”
“So it’s basically a voter enrichment and enrollment process and in Minnesota, I really think, having been there, interviewed folks who work in their Department of Health and Human Services — that there was an almost purposeful desire not to look carefully, and it wasn’t just in Minnesota, it was in Washington,” he detailed. “The program that we have that audits Medicaid was gutted.”
During his probe, Oz discovered that there “wasn’t really a desire to focus on program integrity,” such as who should be on the insurance program and who should not. He added that this is occurring due to the notion by state administrators that the more people enrolled in the program, the better.
“The problem is, you should need to actually deserve to be on the program, because if you don’t deserve to be on the program, and you get all the benefits, you actually reduce our ability to help the people who deserve to be on the program,” he argued.
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Following up, Miller asked the CMS administrator to give an estimate of the total Medicaid fraud taking place across the country.
“$100 billion,” he replied. “That money should go back to making the Medicare trust fund solvent for many years, it should go back to providing adequate, high-quality services for mental health conditions. It should allow us to take better care of people in rural parts of the country, underserved parts of the country, but we look at numbers now, like in Southern California where you have a seven-fold increase in hospice. It doesn’t make any sense.”
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