Trump administration admits a glaring error in its accusations about New York health care fraud | State News
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration this week acknowledged it made a vital error in figures it used to assist justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal marketing campaign to sort out waste, largely in Democratic-led states.
The error, considered one of at the very least a few misrepresentations in its description of this system, prompted health analysts to query how most of the Republican administration’s sweeping anti-fraud efforts across the nation had been primarily based on defective findings. It additionally mirrored a widespread criticism that is been fabricated from Trump’s second administration — that it tends to assault first and ensure the details later.
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