HHS and CMS defer $1B+ in Medicaid payments to CA and MN

HHS and CMS deferred over $1 billion in Medicaid payments — $867M to California, $199M to Minnesota — until the states document that high-risk claims (home-based services, flagged providers) aren’t fraudulent. The administration frames it as proactive anti-fraud; the states call it coercion. Money stopped is money stopped.

Sources: WUTV29