President Donald J. Trump today issued a memorandum to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Administrators of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, directing immediate action to eliminate what his administration describes as “waste, fraud, and abuse” within the Medicaid program.

The memorandum, titled “Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid,” sharply criticizes practices allegedly encouraged under the previous administration, specifically targeting “State Directed Payments” that the President claims have allowed states and healthcare providers to “game the system.”

“My Administration has been relentlessly committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in Government programs to preserve and protect them for those who rely most on them,” the memorandum st

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