Maine in the Crosshairs, As CMS Administrator Dr. | Political News
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is on a critical tear to root out fraud from Medicare. Fraud that has been embedded within this program for a long time.
Minnesota was just the beginning place, and thanks to the video exposés by YouTuber Nick Shirley, the story finally went national, gaining everybody’s consideration. Then Dr. Oz moved to California, and its hospice care fraud, among other areas of malfeasance. In regard to this specific model of fraud, Dr. Oz in contrast Minnesota to California and said California is “the Varsity team.”
Days after outing California, Dr. Oz discovered the same sample of hospice fraud in Nevada.
Systematic hospice fraud in LA is spreading to Las Vegas. Seniors are harmed. Taxpayers are robbed. We are cracking down. pic.twitter.com/Og9EVSv7iV
— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) February 5, 2026
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Next in the crosshairs: the little colony of Maine, population 1.4 million. Dr. Oz took to X, posting this video, which outlines the findings from a Health and Human Services investigation of the state of Maine’s books.
Dr. Oz started:
We might need another “Minnesota” on our palms.
Remember that state’s program for kids with autism, the one where Somali fraudsters set up faux treatment facilities and stole hundreds of thousands of taxpayer {dollars}? Well the same factor seems to be taking place: in Maine.
Two weeks in the past, Health and Human Services investigators launched a report on Maine’s autism program in which they recognized at least 45 million {dollars} in improper funds. But that’s not all.
They discovered that the program’s payouts elevated more than 50 % in just 4 years. They discovered that treatment facilities are clustered in small, geographic areas: just like they did in Minnesota.
They reviewed paperwork that was lacking essential info. Like whether or not the youngsters receiving these providers had been correctly recognized with autism in the first place. One hundred % of the claims they examined had issues. And most troubling of all, they found that Maine had never carried out a statewide review of its autism program.
Once again, it appears to be like like another governor left the money register unattended, and criminals helped themselves to your hard-earned money.
Oh my. At this level, we do not need Nick Shirley or an exposé video. Americans hear “Medicare” and “fraud,” and they immediately see pink. The unmasking of the Somali fraud in Minnesota and Gov. Tim Walz’s horrible response to it have ruined his political profession. Should Maine get the same treatment, Gov. Janet Mills, who is operating for the Democrat nomination to problem Sen. Susan Collins (R) for her Senate seat, can kiss hers goodbye, too.
Oz continued:
Rest assured, we’re going to get to the backside of this. Today, we despatched a letter to Governor Janet Mills and Maine’s health commissioner, demanding more info about how they’re stopping, figuring out, and remediating fraud in the autism program, and other applications that have raised pink flags. If we do not like what we see, CMS will work with Maine to put their home in order. And if we’re not glad with their progress, we reserve the proper to cut off funds totally.
Dr. Oz and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler just shut off the money spigot in California, so this is no idle risk or phony pink line. Dr. Oz hooked up the letter to ME Gov. Janet Mills and Health Commissioner Sara Gagné-Holmes to the X thread.
— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) February 6, 2026
Oz concluded:
That’s what it means to combat fraud, protect program integrity, and to defend your taxpayer {dollars}. And that’s we’ll keep doing, every single day, right here at CMS.
WATCH:
You’ve most likely heard about Minnesota’s fraud issues. Maine also wants to clean up its act.
Last month, HHS investigators launched a report that recognized at least $45 million in improper funds to the state’s Medicaid-funded treatment program for kids with autism.… pic.twitter.com/z0Mu542BNA
— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) February 6, 2026
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Janet Mills and Sara Gagné-Holmes ought to be shaking in their boots. Mills is still preventing a shedding battle against the Trump administration’s Title IX rules; it’s uncertain she has the bandwidth or the price range to start a new battle with CMS. If Minnesota is any indication, she’ll lose this one, along with any political future she thinks she could have.
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