How Far Up Does the Mental Health Fraud Go in Minnesota’s Medicaid Fraud Case?
January 13, 2025
Medicaid fraud is apparently rampant in Minnesota’s Somali-speaking communities and, according to federal warrants, hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds may have been paid for services never provided. How, one might ask, is a financial fraud of this magnitude possible without state officials being aware? It’s simple. Zero oversight.
In a nutshell, the Minnesota legislature created the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) treatment program in 2017. The purpose of EIDBI was to provide intensive treatment to children under the age of 18 on the autism spectrum. Since the creation of EIDBI there has been a remarkable boom in autistic cases in Minnesota, especially among Somali children.