Federal authorities are investigating cases that cost the state's Medicaid program more than $250,000 where someone is suspected of assuming a false identity that enabled them to falsely secure welfare benefits.
Medicaid Inspector General Steven Anderson revealed to lawmakers Wednesday two new cases that are expected to be prosecuted involving two people who took on the identity of a dead cousin and a dead citizen in separate cases to collect $268,000 in Medicaid benefits.
Anderson said the overall loss in benefits in both cases, including Social Security, food-assistance and low-income energy assistance, totaled more than . . .
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