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Grand jury sees ways to reduce Pennsylvania’s Medicaid fraud

APRIL 22, 2019 | by Mark Scolforo | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Law enforcement agencies and government regulators need new tools to effectively combat fraud within Pennsylvania’s $33 billion Medicaid program, according to a grand jury report released Monday. Community based health-service programs can be 'easily manipulated to facilitate fraud' because they lack the supervision, training and oversight that exist in traditional residential health care facilities, the report made public by the attorney general’s office said.

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