JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don't comply with White House anti-fraud effort [View all]

Earlier DU thread: trump administration freezes new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home health agencies for 6 months

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Source: The Guardian

JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don’t comply with White House anti-fraud effort

Medicare has already paused hospice and home healthcare agency signups as potential fraud is investigated

Melody Schreiber
Wed 13 May 2026 22.20 BST
Last modified on Wed 13 May 2026 22.28 BST

JD Vance has threatened to “turn off” federal funding for government health insurance programs in states that refuse to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on suspected fraud.

States which fail to “get serious” about fraud would lose Medicaid and Medicare funding, the US vice-president announced on Wednesday, sparking fresh accusations that Trump officials are using unfounded allegations to punish political rivals.

Hospices and home health agencies are also halted from new Medicare enrollment for six months while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) investigates potential fraud alongside Vance’s anti-fraud taskforce, the agency announced on Wednesday.

The administration will review anti-fraud funding for states that it deems to have failed to tackle fraud, Vance said. “And if we continue to find problems, we can turn off other resources within their state Medicaid programs as well.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/jd-vance-anti-fraud-medicare-medicaid