Your government at work. From the Minnesota Star Tribune
Minnesota can release records on Medicaid providers accused of fraud – but won’t
First, let me sincerely praise the Star Tribune for committing an act of journalism. The Star Tribune reports,
Just two months after a jury delivered guilty verdicts in the eye-popping Feeding Our Future fraud, Minnesota lawmakers voted to give state agencies broad authority to stop payments to individuals and companies suspected of defrauding the government.
They also allowed the Minnesota Department of Human Services to disclose when it’s withholding payments from a company over credible allegations of fraud.
But while DHS requested the ability to disclose that information, often, it won’t.
The Star Tribune has requested documents under this authority, but it has been refused. Read the whole thing here.