{"id":639018,"date":"2026-07-21T15:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639018"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:01:36","slug":"feds-withhold-over-1-billion-in-medicaid-payments-to-california-minnesota-to-stop-fraud-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639018","title":{"rendered":"Feds withhold over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota to stop fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud and noncompliance, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2025\/05\/05\/RFK_Jr._Fluoride_08330_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"Feds withhold over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota to stop fraud\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud and noncompliance, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}