Under pressure from the White House, Missouri speeds up effort to find Medicaid fraud 16.7%
KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Meg Cunningham - 5/30/2026, 9:00 AM
Ambiguity (Equivocation) 19.5% - Appeal to Authority 16.4% - Framing Effect 8.7%
Missouri officials are launching an expanded effort to find fraud in the state’s Medicaid system as part of a broader effort pushed by the Trump administration to root out fraud. Gov. Mike Kehoe announced that Missouri’s Medicaid compliance office, alongside the MO HealthNet Medicaid program as a whole, would begin revalidating providers... more