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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House/Senate DFL Media Availability 12/4/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- How about the fraud question you've heard all of us asking for? Is fraud accounted in the budget?
- the fraud could be having on the budget? the fraud could be having on the budget?
- <00:10:23.519>
They're and prevent and stop fraud. They're and prevent and stop fraud. - bill is a panacea to stop fraud, okay? bill is a panacea to stop fraud, okay?
- Every single dollar of fraud that fraud.
Summary:
House and Senate DFL leaders Erin Murphy and Zach Stevenson discussed Minnesota’s budget forecast, arguing that rising health care costs, federal policy changes under Trump and congressional Republicans, and cuts to health care, food support, and clean energy are worsening the state’s fiscal outlook and household affordability. They said the state’s economy remains strong but is being undermined by higher premiums, tariffs, canceled projects, and shifting costs to state and local governments, while Republicans are prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations over working families.
A major topic was fraud prevention and oversight. In response to questions, the leaders said every dollar of fraud is unacceptable, but that the budget forecast is not the right tool to measure it. They pointed to existing efforts, including BCA investigators, a governor-ordered and legislature-authorized audit, stronger laws passed in 2023-2025, and work on an independent inspector general proposal. They said the House DFL supports stronger anti-fraud measures and wants fraudsters held accountable, while also protecting services for vulnerable Minnesotans.
The leaders also defended prior DFL budget decisions, saying the 2023 legislative session ended with a $5 billion surplus and rejecting Republican claims that DFL spending drained the state’s coffers. They said Minnesota must still balance its budget, but that the structural deficit is being driven largely by rising medical assistance and health care costs, which they argued are tied to federal actions and broader health system instability. No votes were taken in this transcript; it was a press availability with questions and responses.
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/10/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a Medicaid fraud case, $2.6 million, not the biggest fraud on the list by any means.
- It was a Medicaid fraud case, $2.6 million, not the biggest fraud on the list by any means.
- They have the Fraud Unit.
- for fraud in the state how much fraud for fraud in the state how much fraud have<01:35:59.360>
- That is fraud.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: Media Availability on S.F. 856 - 05/08/25
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 3, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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Fraud. we're here to talk about. Fraud. we're here to talk about. Fraud. - . fraud. fraud.
- waste, fraud, or abused. waste, fraud, or abused.
- . reduce fraud.
- fraud. HR 7726 is also extremely vague. fraud.
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Transcript Highlights:
- fraud that has come out of Minnesota fraud that has come out of Minnesota under<00:07:15.720>
the< - <00:07:57.759>
waste part um to cut down on the fraud waste part um to cut down on the fraud - <00:16:31.839>
and that because of the waste Fraud and that because of the waste Fraud and - <00:19:00.480>
and disciplined for the waste Fraud and disciplined for the waste Fraud and - Fraud, um, it's not fraud by your agency or any state agency.
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Transcript Highlights:
- Our government must take fraud seriously. Fraud undermines Minnesotans' trust in their government.
- on various schemes of fraud.
- Our Future fraud fraud in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal,<01:23:29.679>
over <01:23:30.080 - six years on various schemes of fraud. six years on various schemes of fraud.
- Fraud is bad. Passing a bill to stop and fix fraud, that's a good thing in my book.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Performance Audit Oversight Committee (03/06/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, as the Medicaid fraud control unit, we address provider fraud.
- Um, as the Medicaid fraud control unit, we address provider fraud.
- <00:49:22.559>
and <00:49:22.960>fraud <00:49:24.400>stands uh fraud and fraud - the level of fraud. the level of fraud.
- fraud, instances of beneficiary<01:12:34.080>
fraud.
Summary:
The committee chair opened by explaining that the committee has expanded from a traditional audit-follow-up role into an oversight role focused on whether audit recommendations are implemented and whether controls are in place to detect fraud. He said the committee was concerned about fraud uncovered in social service programs in other states and wanted to understand New Hampshire’s safeguards, especially around major contracts and program performance.
Charles Buchanan, director of the New Hampshire Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and investigator Tim Brackett described the unit’s structure and mission. Buchanan said the unit, housed in the Attorney General’s Criminal Justice Bureau, investigates and prosecutes fraud by health care providers serving Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of residents in health care facilities. He outlined common Medicaid fraud schemes such as billing for services not rendered, upcoding, using unqualified staff, drug substitution, kickbacks, supplemental charges, and inflated customary charges. He also described resident abuse/neglect and drug diversion in hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living settings. Brackett said his role is financial investigator/auditor and noted the unit is grant-funded and must include a prosecutor, investigator, and auditor.
The witnesses then explained how cases reach the unit and how they are handled. Most referrals come from the state Department of Health and Human Services’ program integrity unit and from managed care organizations’ special investigations units, which look for fraud, waste, and abuse and refer credible allegations. Other sources include qui tam whistleblower actions, the national Medicaid Fraud Control Units association, citizen complaints, provider referrals, adult protective services law-enforcement referrals, local law enforcement, and federal agencies. Once a referral is received, the unit can accept or deny it; accepted matters may be investigated criminally or civilly, while nonviable matters can be referred back to HHS or other agencies for administrative action, including repayment demands and reimbursement offsets. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the portion provided.
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 7/8/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Improper payments does not mean fraud, right? Fraud is a crime.
- Detecting, preventing fraud, fighting fraud takes resources.
- Detecting, preventing fraud, fighting fraud takes resources.
- Detecting, preventing fraud, fighting fraud takes resources.
- fraud, there's fraud, frankly, there are fraud, there's fraud, frankly, whenever<01:46:02.960>
there's
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House/Senate Press Conference 4/15/26
Transcript Highlights:
- programs for fraud since 2018.
- destination for government fraud.
- uh were here and supervised the fraud uh were here and supervised the fraud that<00:04:37.840>
- If you stole money from the fraud.
- Revenue know if it's fraud or not? Revenue know if it's fraud or not?
Summary:
Senator Steve Drazkowski and Representative Anderson held a press event promoting the bipartisan, bicameral “Take It Back Act,” a bill aimed at recovering taxpayer money lost to government fraud. They cited major Minnesota fraud cases, including medical assistance fraud, CCAP, and Feeding Our Future, and argued that the state has become a destination for fraud. They said the bill would impose a 100% tax or excise tax on money obtained through fraud, with proceeds deposited into a tax relief fund for income and property tax relief.
The sponsors said the measure is intended to create a stronger deterrent and to recover money even when criminal restitution or prosecutions do not fully recoup losses. They discussed examples of unrecovered funds, said the Department of Revenue could use criminal findings, data analytics, and IRS-sharing data to identify fraud, and noted that the bill includes an appeal process through tax court. They also said the current draft focuses on convicted fraudsters and people or organizations determined by the commissioner to have obtained money by fraud, while trying to avoid sweeping in innocent employees or others who were unaware of wrongdoing.
Anderson said the bill already has significant bipartisan support, including 11 House Democrats and Senator Rest, and that the House Tax Committee hearing is scheduled for April 30. He said the sponsors are working with the Department of Revenue on implementation and may revise the bill to make administration easier. The sponsors said they hope to move the bill through the House and Senate this session, and they closed by encouraging the press to review the fraud website they referenced, mnfraudfiles.com.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee BR Sub. on Health & Family Services (2-26-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- And then, when we get into talking about Medicaid fraud and what we do to combat fraud and identify it
- Member fraud accounts for 2% or less of the fraud activity in the Medicaid program.
- is to provide the program against fraud is to provide the program against fraud waste<00:09:24.360
- there is a credible allegation of fraud there is a credible allegation of fraud we<00:28:01.440>
- prosecution of the healthc Care fraud prosecution of the healthc Care fraud case<00:28:54.000>
Summary:
The subcommittee met to review the Department for Medicaid Services’ program integrity work. Commissioner Lisa Lee and Program Integrity Director Jennifer Dudinsky outlined Kentucky Medicaid’s structure, funding, enrollment, and spending, including FMAP rates, the size of the Medicaid and KCHIP populations, the number of providers, and 2024 expenditures. They also described the managed care and fee-for-service populations, noting that managed care serves most members while fee-for-service is concentrated in long-term care and waiver populations.
Most of the discussion focused on fraud, waste, abuse prevention, and provider oversight. The department described its provider enrollment and certification checks, revalidation requirements, site reviews, fingerprinting for some high-risk providers, and termination grounds such as false application information, Medicare actions, unreported ownership changes, and abandonment of a provider number. Members asked about nonprofit ownership reporting, MCO fraud oversight, and how the department tracks unusual CPT code utilization, especially in behavioral health. The department said it uses data analytics, audits, policy review, and collaboration with behavioral health staff to monitor those trends.
Dudinsky explained the division’s four branches: provider licensing and certification, audits and compliance, recovery, and third-party liability/estate recovery. She described prepayment and postpayment audits, referrals of credible fraud allegations to the Attorney General, monthly meetings with the AG’s office, and coordination with the Office of Inspector General, CMS, HHS OIG, MCOs, and other partners. She also explained payment suspensions, stand-downs during law enforcement investigations, and recovery efforts for overpayments, provider/member fraud, and third-party liability. The department said its recovery and avoidance efforts produced more than $251 million in savings so far in 2025. No votes or formal actions beyond approving the minutes were taken.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
November 2025 State Budget and Economic Forecast Presentation - 12/04/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- money lost to fraud? money lost to fraud?
- That's what I support is getting to the bottom of the fraud, holding those causing fraud and doing fraud
- That's what I support is getting to the bottom of the fraud, holding those causing fraud and doing fraud
- <01:18:44.480>
and fraud, holding those causing fraud and fraud, holding those causing fraud - Every single dollar of fraud that fraud.
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Transcript Highlights:
- THE MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ENROLLMENT FRAUD.
- enrollment fraud.
- And that's critical to mitigating student financial aid fraud.
- Recommendation on training and awareness as fraud tactics evolve.
- Enrollment fraud tests that trust. Your leadership can preserve it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Committee OKs bill to strengthen whistleblower protections for reporting waste, fraud 2/11/25
Transcript Highlights:
- protection for reporting of waste Fraud protection for reporting of waste Fraud and<00:04:47.759
- There is a crime of fraud, but not a crime of reporting it.
- fraud not the person reporting the fraud fraud not the person reporting the fraud representative
- author's Amendment you know fraud author's Amendment you know fraud includes<00:09:51.680>
intentionally - <00:10:45.920>
exists 127a and so the crime of fraud exists 127a and so the crime of fraud
Summary:
House File 23, authored by Representative Robbins, was heard on a motion to advance it to the next committee. The bill, as amended by the A1 author’s amendment, would clarify the statutory definition of abuse, fraud, and waste and expand whistleblower protections for state employees who report those issues to legislators, the legislative auditor, or constitutional officers. Robbins said the measure is intended to protect state workers and align whistleblower language with existing Inspector General definitions; he also cited recent fraud investigations as the backdrop for the bill and noted a Senate companion, SF 475, with bipartisan support.
Devon Bruce of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees testified in support of the bill’s protective intent but raised concerns that it only covers classified state employees, creating uneven treatment between classified and unclassified workers and between state and local public employees. Bruce also warned that the bill does not fully address data practices issues, including the handling of nonpublic, private, or proprietary information, and suggested broader privacy protections for whistleblowers’ identities. In response to questions, Robbins said the bill was not meant to change data practices law and that those issues should be addressed separately.
Members debated whether the bill was ready for further consideration and whether it should also go to the fraud oversight committee or Judiciary. Motions to lay the bill over and to re-refer it to the fraud prevention and state oversight committee both failed. After a roll call vote, the committee approved the bill 7-6 and sent House File 23 to Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Child care program integrity discussed 3/3/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, the fraud epidemic has gotten so bad that it's no longer just Republicans pointing to the fraud
- I mean, the fraud epidemic has this.
- <00:10:22.720>
because concerns of fraud because concerns of fraud because we<00:10:25.680 - funding freeze due to alleged fraud. funding freeze due to alleged fraud.
- Financial fraud is a crime things.
Summary:
House File 3819 was heard and ultimately re-referred to the Judiciary Committee after the committee adopted the author’s A1 amendment and then defeated a DE1 amendment. The bill, as described by Chair West, is aimed at strengthening integrity in state child care assistance and other public programs by requiring annual disaggregated fraud reporting, making certain inspections unannounced and in person, tying inspectors to electronic attendance records, extending data retention for video footage from 28 to 90 days, requiring cameras at entrances and exits for centers receiving more than $500,000 in CCAP and/or early learning scholarship funds, adding an extra licensing visit for those higher-funded centers, and restoring perjury penalties for false attendance records. West said the changes were intended to address fraud, improve accountability, and protect assistance for families who need it.
Public testimony was largely opposed. Child care providers and advocates argued the bill would impose expensive, unfunded surveillance and compliance burdens on small businesses, blur the line between fraud enforcement and licensing/safety regulation, and disproportionately target providers serving low-income families and families of color. Several testifiers said cameras and retention requirements would be costly, technically burdensome, and invasive, and warned the bill could deter providers from participating in CCAP and discourage families from using assistance. One testifier supported stronger child protection measures in principle but said the bill should focus on funding, training, and wages rather than surveillance. Another parent testifier opposed the bill on privacy and discrimination grounds and urged investment in child care instead.
Representative Hansen offered the DE1 amendment, which would have created a task force to study child care surveillance and develop recommendations on safeguards such as encryption and breach notification. Hansen argued the committee was not equipped to design cybersecurity policy on its own and that the issue of child sexual abuse material required urgent, bipartisan attention. Chair West opposed the amendment, saying task forces often do not produce meaningful change and that the bill already addressed the issue. The committee voted on the DE1, and it failed on a tied vote. After that, the committee voted to re-refer House File 3819, as amended, to the Judiciary Committee.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, May 22, 2026 - PM
Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions
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Transcript Highlights:
- services it's intended for, not fraud. services it's intended for, not fraud.
- help crack down on this type of fraud. help crack down on this type of fraud.
- prosecute longunning and sprawling fraud prosecute longunning and sprawling fraud schemes<00:19:
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meeting fraud prevention committee um meeting fraud prevention committee um - insurance fraud on publicly funded insurance fraud on publicly funded projects.<00:26:21.440>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/9/26
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- But let me just, if I can, just two sentences on this. >> The fraud right now are not fraud.
- But let me just, if I can, just two sentences on this. >> The fraud right now are not fraud.
- But let me just, if I can, just two sentences on this. >> The fraud right now are not fraud.
- But let me just, if I can, just two sentences on this. >> The fraud right now are not fraud.
- The fraud right now are not fraud.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
FULL INTERVIEW: Balancing Fraud Prevention and Protecting the Vulnerable | Senator Jim Abeler May 8th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- fraud crackdown. Front page. fraud crackdown. Front page.
- we had we had hearings about fraud. we had we had hearings about fraud.
- Everybody's against fraud. Fraud? Everybody's against fraud. Fraud? It's<00:04:58.919>
bad. - <00:14:51.760>
and Would you say that fraud and Would you say that fraud and counter-fraud - . fraud. fraud.
Summary:
The discussion focused on disability advocacy and the impact of Minnesota’s fraud crackdown on people who rely on home and community-based services. The senator highlighted Lydia Dolly’s testimony about losing services after her provider was placed under a payment withhold, leaving her without care for months and forcing her mother to quit her job. He said her situation illustrates the risk of cutting off services too abruptly and criticized the state’s safe-transitions process as not working well enough.
The senator argued that fraud is real and should be aggressively addressed, but said the state’s response has been too haphazard and has harmed innocent clients and legitimate providers. He cited reports of homelessness, possible deaths, and suspended services tied to the crackdown, and said earlier warnings about fraud in child care, PCA, and housing stabilization were not handled thoughtfully. He also referenced recent raids and investigations, saying the administration has been reactive and has not worked closely enough with providers.
He described Senate File 2939, the Home Care Stability and Accountability Act, and a broader umbrella bill, Senate File 4222, as bipartisan efforts to add scrutiny, protections, and due process so fraudulent providers can be removed without leaving clients stranded. He also mentioned Senate File 4354, which would modify program integrity requirements, including a new expectation that providers demonstrate they can actually deliver the services they claim. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the conversation, but he expressed optimism that the Legislature could make progress before session ends.
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Transcript Highlights:
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So fraud, misuse or mismanagement. So fraud, misuse or mismanagement. - leaves us too often reacting after fraud leaves us too often reacting after fraud has<00:01:27.680
- , focused not just on rooting out fraud, focused not just on rooting out fraud, but<00:01:39.759>
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it <00:02:37.599>doesn't When fraud goes unchecked, it doesn't When fraud goes unchecked - have a reasonable suspicion of fraud. have a reasonable suspicion of fraud.