Grand Jury Report Says New Tools Are Needed to Effectively Combat Fraud Within PA’s Medicaid Program

A grand jury report says law enforcement and government regulators need new tools to effectively combat fraud within Pennsylvania’s sprawling Medicaid program. The report made public Monday says community based health-service programs can be “easily manipulated to facilitate fraud” because they lack supervision, training and oversight. The jurors say the person who provides a service should be named in requests for reimbursement and requests should include the time the service was provided.