Tagged: fraud

Health Care
5:48 pm
Wed March 13, 2013

Medicaid Report Finds Some Fraud; Bigger Problem is Data Sharing

Credit Kristin Gourlay / RIPR
Secretary Steven Costantino, left, and Director Sandra Powell, far right, at a Wednesday press conference on the Ken Block report.

Governor Lincoln Chafee has released a new report on Medicaid fraud. Lawmakers and citizen groups had been pressuring Chafee to make the report public.

And, after declining for fear of jeopardizing fraud investigations, Chafee finally released the report, along with several proposed anti-fraud bills and a timeline of his administration’s efforts over the past few years to crack down on corruption.  

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RI News
9:54 am
Mon January 7, 2013

State ends free tax prep service

(PROVIDENCE, RI) A spike in fraudulent income tax returns has prompted the suspension of a free state tax preparation service. 

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