California’s Medi-Cal has a bad case of fraud — and there’s only one cure

Finding waste, fraud and corruption in Medicaid is a lot like diagnosing illness in a human body. You do an initial check-up and if something seems off, you order more tests.   That’s exactly what the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did with California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. During a review...