Minnesota lawmakers are set to tackle a number of issues this upcoming session. Among them? The budget, waste, and fraud. And lawmakers have a new idea to help battle what has become a huge issue in Minnesota.
The FBI raided Minneapolis and St. Cloud autism centers earlier in December as part of an investigation into Medicaid fraud in Minnesota’s autism program that a search warrant application said revealed “substantial evidence” of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims. Investigators found evidence of the autism fraud while investigating Feeding Our Future which blew up into one of the biggest COVID fraud cases in the country.
Republican State Senator Mark Koran (Chisago-Isanti) telling WCCO Radio’s Blois Olson on the Sunday Take that more needs to be done inside each agency, in terms of accountability.
“What we haven’t seen since I got here in 2017, is we haven’t seen a laundry list of shortcomings that they believe they have to stop these things,” Koran says.
Last week, Walz was asked to comment specifically on fraud detected at autism centers that were recently reimbursed over a million dollars by the state, adding that he’s “furious” about it.