{"id":8041,"date":"2025-11-01T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/dr-oz-cms-medicaid-undocumented-immigrants-states\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:02:54","slug":"dr-oz-cms-medicaid-undocumented-immigrants-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/dr-oz-cms-medicaid-undocumented-immigrants-states\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: States reject Dr. Oz\u2019s claims of Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: States reject Dr. Oz\u2019s claims of Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said Friday that \u201cmore than $1 billion of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants\u201d by five states and the District of Columbia in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>But several state health departments rejected the claims, with one saying administration officials had already privately acknowledged the error.<\/p>\n<p>Oz posted Friday on X that after an audit, CMS found \u201ca terrifying reality\u201d of federal tax dollars being spent on care for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/01\/dr-oz-cms-medicaid-undocumented-immigrants-states\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Daniel Payne<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/01\/dr-oz-cms-medicaid-undocumented-immigrants-states\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: States reject Dr. Oz\u2019s claims of Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants WASHINGTON \u2014 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said Friday that \u201cmore than $1 billion of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants\u201d by five states and the District of Columbia in recent months. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2157,2214,2144,2152,2371],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicaid","category-politics","category-stat","category-states","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}