Medicaid fraud control unit - to investigate and prosecute medicaid provider fraud as well as patient abuse or neglect in health facilities and board and care facilities and of medicaid…

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded the Attorney General of Kansas $6.224 million in formula grant funding on October 1, 2025, under the State Medicaid Fraud Control Units program (CFDA 93.775) to investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse or neglect in health facilities, board and care facilities, and non-institutional settings serving Medicaid beneficiaries. The award covers the period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with performance taking place in Kansas. Under this formula grant program, states are awarded funds based on detailed descriptions of estimated expenditures, with award funds distributed quarterly on a fiscal year basis as follows: October 1, January 1, April 1, and July 1. The Attorney General's office operates the State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as a single identifiable entity of Kansas state government, certified and annually re-certified by the Secretary and the Office of Inspector General as complying with the requirements of the Social Security Act. The unit must retain all records for three years in accordance with 2 CFR 200.334.

Medicaid fraud control unit - to investigate and prosecute medicaid provider fraud as well as patient abuse or neglect in health facilities and board and care facilities and of medicaid beneficiaries in non-institutional or other settings.