California referred few Medicaid fraud cases for investigation: ‘Not even a 50% success rate’

California referred relatively few Medicaid fraud cases for criminal investigation in recent years, as the state has become a hot spot for healthcare fraud, rivaling other fraud-fraught jurisdictions.

Over the past five years, California Medicaid oversight officials referred just a few hundred credible allegations of fraud to California’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the office within […] ...