Minnesota Medicaid fraud more than $1M now carries prison time

Minnesota has made Medicaid fraud involving over $1 million a crime that can result in prison time. State and federal officials are prosecuting cases where large amounts of money have allegedly been taken from the Medicaid program, which is funded by taxpayers.

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