Walz administration gives potentially fraudulent Medicaid providers advance notice of site visits
The Minnesota Department of Human Services publicly announced that it will be performing unannounced site visits to Medicaid providers between now and the start of summer.
By
Luke Sprinkel -
February 9, 2026
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is performing unannounced site visits on more than 5,800 Medicaid providers in the state. The problem? DHS let providers know roughly when those site visits will occur.
As Minnesota’s fraud saga has continued to develop, much of the attention has focused on 14 state-run, Medicaid-funded welfare programs. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, more than $9 billion could have been stolen from those programs since 2018.
One of those welfare programs was outright canceled because it was so riddled with fraud. The remaining 13 programs continue to face scrutiny as costs have ballooned and criminal fraud charges connected to some of those programs have been unveiled.
Fraud schemes in those types of cases typically involve a business enrolling in one of the Medicaid-funded programs and submitting fraudulent documents for reimbursement.
All 13 of the welfare programs under scrutiny have been deemed “high-risk” for fraud by DHS, the Minnesota state agency responsible for administering those programs.
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