BUSTED: Trump admin admits it used wildly wrong numbers to justify Medicaid fraud probe In a stunning admission, the Trump administration has acknowledged it relied on massively inflated data to target New York’s Medicaid program. CMS Administrator Dr. Oz claimed that 5 million people in New York used personal care services — a number used to fuel accusations of fraud.

🚨 BUSTED: Trump admin admits it used wildly wrong numbers to justify Medicaid fraud probe
In a stunning admission, the Trump administration has acknowledged it relied on massively inflated data to target New York’s Medicaid program.
CMS Administrator Dr. Oz claimed that 5 million people in New York used personal care services — a number used to fuel accusations of fraud.

The real number was about 450,000.

That’s not a small mistake. That’s off by more than 10x.

According to an AP report, the administration misread billing codes and only corrected the data after outside analysts flagged the error, raising serious questions about how this investigation was launched in the first place.

Health policy experts are now sounding the alarm, warning that this kind of “attack first, fact-check later” approach risks turning oversight into political theater rather than legitimate enforcement. We’d say that’s exactly the point.

And this wasn’t the only claim under scrutiny. Advocates say other statements made by Oz about eligibility rules and care services were also misleading or flat-out wrong.

Meanwhile, real people who depend on these services, including disabled New Yorkers, are pushing back hard against narratives that trivialize or distort their care needs.

The fraud is coming from inside the White House.