Vance Announces $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Reimbursement Deferments from California over Fraud

WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance, head of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, announced on Wednesday that the federal government is deferring 1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from California over its failure to take fraud “very seriously.”

Vance announced the action during a press conference on Wednesday in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus.

“First, we’re announcing that the federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from the state of California, and the simple reason is because the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously,” Vance said.

Vance added that both taxpayers and patients who are being prescribed medications they do not even need at the behest of fraudsters are victims.

“So there are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously,” the vice president told reporters. “But