Fraud inside the Affordable Care Act has meant improper enrollments, fake payments, and money drained away from a system that was supposed to serve Americans. The Trump administration's Fraud Task Force has now recovered $2.2 billion — and Dr. Mehmet Oz, in his official government capacity, made clear the work is continuing.
The specific new enforcement step targets enrollment agents: officials are blocking new agents from entering the ACA system, cutting off the mechanism used to submit fraudulent sign-ups and collect unearned payments. Oz's public warning to anyone still attempting it was unambiguous. Two point two billion dollars recovered is a concrete result, and the people responsible are on notice.