EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched a novel Medicaid Integrity Initiative to stop fraud at enrollment, offering a national model to protect care.
Every other state dealing with Medicaid fraud is doing it the lazy way: across-the-board rate cuts that punish legitimate providers along with the fraudsters. Nebraska slashed autism therapy payments by up to 80%. Indiana floated payment caps. Colorado and New York are considering budget cuts that would gut access for kids who genuinely need care. That’s not fraud enforcement. That’s budget balancing dressed up as reform — and the families paying the price have every right to be furious.
Florida is doing it differently. And the rest of the country needs to pay attention