{"id":659876,"date":"2026-08-29T18:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=659876"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:14:54","slug":"expert-minnesota-fraud-persists-as-state-okays-new-assisted-living-facilities-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=659876","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Minnesota fraud persists as state okays new assisted living facilities daily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite the amount of attention Minnesota\u2019s fraud problem has received, it doesn\u2019t appear to be slowing down.<\/p>\n

Center of the American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn is sounding the alarm about the rampant fraud that is essentially being allowed to continue in the state.<\/p>\n

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NO SLOWDOWN: Expert warns that Minnesota\u2019s fraud hasn\u2019t stopped despite billions in taxpayer losses and national scrutiny, a policy expert warns \u2014 with the state approving more than one new assisted living facility license every single day.<\/p>\n

Bill Glahn of the Center of the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/YaINr4T1yA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) August 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe have not slowed down, there is no sense in which the fraud has been stopped in Minnesota,\u201d he told Fox News Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a recent piece, he dug deeper into the matter<\/a>\u00a0and revealed that there has been a massive spike in licenses being approved in the last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have something along the order of 2,500 of these licensed across the state, but about 20% of them, around three, 400 of them have just been started in the last year,\u201d he said. His article notes that the growth seems inconsistent with the state\u2019s aging population.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a growth industry. Checking the current MDE list of licensed assisted living facilities reveals a total number of 2,527 of all types, a growth of 305 over that 2024 baseline. That represents an increase in the size of the industry of nearly 14 percent over a two-and-a-half year period. While it\u2019s true that Minnesota\u2019s population is aging, overall population growth is hardly budging,\u201d he wrote. \u201cChecking the MDH look up tool shows 364 facilities holding provisional licenses, meaning that they have been open less than a year, as described above. That works out to a new facility opening every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure if there\u2019s a real underlying driver in the demographics or the demand for these facilities, but it\u2019s odd that we have these assisted living facilities linked to Medicaid fraud, at the same time, the Minnesota Department of Health is approving more than one a day. More than one new facility gets approved every single day, 365 days a year. And I don\u2019t think anybody is really giving any thought to, hey, maybe some of this is not on the up and up,\u201d he said to Fox.<\/p>\n

Fraud aside, there are other reasons to be concerned about the facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlahn also pointed to a\u00a0recent criminal complaint<\/a> filed by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison\u2019s office against Salman Ahmed Elmi, who was charged Aug. 17 with eight felony theft offenses tied to alleged Medicaid billing fraud, as evidence that fraud is still taking place,\u201d Fox News reported. \u201cThe criminal complaint also details alleged ties among the Medicaid-funded businesses, properties previously used to provide commercial sex services and people investigators say were part of a sex-trafficking organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s not a good enough reason to crack down, then who knows what it will take for Minnesota to wake up.<\/p>\n

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Despite the amount of attention Minnesota\u2019s fraud problem has received, it doesn\u2019t appear to be slowing down. Center of the American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn is sounding the alarm about the rampant fraud that is essentially being allowed to continue in the state. Watch: NO SLOWDOWN: Expert warns that Minnesota\u2019s fraud hasn\u2019t stopped despite… Continue reading Expert: Minnesota fraud persists as state okays new assisted living facilities daily<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659877,"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-659876","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\/659876","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=659876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/659877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}