Dr. Oz: States Spending Medicaid Funds on Illegal Immigrants ‘Worse Than We Thought’

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has uncovered more Medicaid funds unlawfully spent on health care for illegal immigrants, reaching $1.8 billion in eight states, Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced on Jan. 14. “It’s worse than we thought,” Oz posted on X. Spending federal Medicaid funds on non-emergency health care for illegal immigrants is against the law, according to CMS. If states use their own money to do it, the states need to document the spending to prove that federal dollars were not used to fund the services, Oz said. “These states failed to provide that for this $1.8 billion,” Oz stated....