The nation’s top Medicaid official said he is upgrading the government’s technology to stop illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid.
“We now can do it a very straightforward way for the 44 states that don’t have state-based Medicaid plans for us to be able to audit it,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said in response to a question from the Daily Signal.
“The people that we’re paying for, our citizens or not, in the state-based plans, like I mentioned in California, there’s a few other states, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, they have their own plan, so we have to now audit their plans,” he said.
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