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SNIP A top prosecutor suggested on Thursday that the total amount of fraud in Minnesota could be $9 billion or more.
According to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, 14 Medicaid services under audit and deemed "high risk" for fraud have cost the state $18 billion since 2018.
Thompson said a substantial amount of money billed across those programs is fraudulent, but the exact amount is still under investigation.
"I don't make these generalizations in a hasty way," he said. "When I say significant amount, I'm talking on the order of half or more. But we'll see. When I look at the claims data and the providers, I see more red flags than I see legitimate providers."...
..."The magnitude cannot be overstated," Thompson said. "What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It's staggering, industrial-scale fraud." SNIP
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