Cutting Medicaid Fraud, Waste, Abuse Likely Won’t Deliver Savings GOP Seeks
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May 09, 2025
Managed Medicaid health plans are an important partner to states for detecting fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, according to the panelists of a webinar sponsored by KFF. Yet what exactly constitutes fraud, waste and abuse has become a political flashpoint.
House Republicans’ budget resolution calls for the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to cut spending by $880 billion over 10 years — much of which likely will come from Medicaid. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) asserted in February that “if you eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, you’ve got a huge amount of money that you can spend on real priorities for the country.”
However, the KFF webinar speakers are skeptical of that claim.
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