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6月4日（路透社）——特朗普政府周四表示，由于未能持续提起刑事诉讼，夏威夷总检察长将损失约300万美元用于打击医疗补助欺诈的联邦资金。此举是副总统JD·万斯发起的打击医疗欺诈行动的升级。
美国卫生与公众服务部监察长马奇·贝尔致函夏威夷总检察长安妮·洛佩斯，告知该州的医疗补助欺诈控制单元——负责调查和起诉医疗服务提供商欺诈行为的机构——已被取消联邦认证。贝尔写道，卫生与公众服务部将不再为该单元提供资金，该单元每年可获得约300万美元拨款。
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如果没有获得联邦认证的医疗补助欺诈调查单元，该州整体的医疗补助资金可能面临风险。
贝尔在信中写道，尽管该项目的参保人数有所增加，但2022年至2025年间，夏威夷该单元未对医疗补助欺诈或患者虐待与忽视行为提起任何刑事起诉或作出有罪判决。该州可以申请复议。
此举是特朗普政府加大医疗补助欺诈执法力度整体计划的一部分。万斯上个月指责夏威夷让欺诈者“逍遥法外”，并警告未能有效监管该项目的州将面临后果。他当时表示：“如果我们继续发现问题，我们还可以切断该州医疗补助项目中的其他资源。我们的目标并非如此。”
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超过36万夏威夷居民参保了面向低收入美国人的医疗补助计划。据负责为国会提供医疗支出咨询的机构数据，夏威夷2024年获得了22亿美元联邦医疗补助资金。据该机构统计，2022年至2025年间，全国范围内的医疗补助欺诈调查单元共促成4800多起个人和企业的刑事定罪。
洛佩斯总检察长驳斥了特朗普政府的说法。她此前曾表示，该州并未忽视医疗补助欺诈，指出自2021年以来该州通过民事案件追回了1400万美元。该州还在今年早些时候对两人提起了医疗欺诈刑事诉讼。
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Trump cuts off funds to Hawaii Medicaid fraud unit over lack of cases
2026-06-04 13:04:22 UTC / Reuters
By Jody Godoy
June 4, 2026 1:04 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
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June 4 (Reuters) – Hawaii’s attorney general stands to lose around $3 million in federal funding to fight Medicaid fraud after failing to consistently bring criminal cases, the Trump administration said on Thursday, in an escalation of Vice President JD Vance’s campaign against healthcare fraud.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General March Bell sent a letter to Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez informing her that her state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, a body that investigates and prosecutes fraud by healthcare providers, has been denied federal certification. HHS will no longer fund the unit, which has been receiving around $3 million annually, Bell wrote.
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Without a federally certified Medicaid fraud unit, the state’s broader Medicaid funding could be in jeopardy.
Hawaii’s unit obtained no criminal indictments or convictions for Medicaid fraud or patient abuse and neglect between 2022 and 2025, despite increased enrollment in the program, Bell wrote. The state can ask for reconsideration, according to the letter.
The move is part of a broader Trump administration push on Medicaid fraud enforcement. Vance accused Hawaii last month of giving fraudsters “free rein,” and warned of consequences for states failing to effectively police the program. “If we continue to find problems, we can turn off other resources within their state Medicaid programs as well. Our goal here is not to do that,” he said at the time.
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More than 360,000 Hawaii residents are enrolled in Medicaid, the health program for low-income Americans. Hawaii received $2.2 billion in federal Medicaid funds in 2024, according to the agency that advises Congress on healthcare spending. Nationwide, Medicaid fraud units were responsible for more than 4,800 criminal convictions of people and businesses between 2022 and 2025, according to the same agency.
Attorney General Lopez has pushed back against the Trump administration’s characterization. She has previously said the state has not ignored Medicaid fraud, pointing to $14 million recovered in civil cases since 2021. The state also charged two people with criminal healthcare fraud earlier this year.
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