This effort accompanies a 2026 push by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to identify redundancies in government health plans. CMS removed 189,000 subsidized enrollments with duplicate coverage across Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP, including those where the individuals had died, to prevent $738M in improper payments this year and over $1.5B annually. Kennedy defended the moves as reclaiming money from insurance companies, despite criticism that the initiatives serve to remove citizens from essential healthcare coverage.
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Trump Administration Saves $4.4B Clearing Health Enrollment Backlog
US Politics7 days ago
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services eliminated 550,000 overlapping insurance memberships created during the prior presidency. CMS Administrator Dr. Oz stated that processing this backlog of duplicate Medicaid and Obamacare enrollments from 2025 saved the Trump Administration nearly $4.4 billion in government spending.
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