Trump cuts funding to Hawaii’s Medicaid fraud unit

The Trump administration is cutting off $3 million in federal funding to Hawaii’s Medicaid fraud control program after it failed to bring a single indictment or conviction over the past four years. In a letter sent to Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez, Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General March Bell said his agency would not re-certify the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU),…