First on Fox: Trump admin opens new front in fraud crackdown targeting health insurers, drug middlemen
The Trump administration is expanding its fraud crackdown to include federal health insurance programs, directing insurers to tighten controls. The Office of Personnel Management issued new compliance expectations for the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits plans, emphasizing oversight of pharmacy benefit managers. The effort is coordinated with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and involves building a data‑science audit team to detect waste and abuse.
- ▪OPM announced new fraud‑prevention requirements for insurers covering more than 8.2 million federal employees and their families.
- ▪The directives require stronger payment reviews, pharmacy benefit oversight, subcontractor accountability, audits, and reporting.
- ▪The White House Task Force Executive Director Scott Brady highlighted the measures as protection for taxpayers and the federal workforce.
- ▪OPM is creating a data‑science and audit team with its inspector general to analyze anonymized claims data for fraud and overbilling.
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White House First on Fox: Trump admin opens new front in fraud crackdown targeting health insurers, drug middlemen The program covers more than 8.2 million federal employees and family members, according to the GAO By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News Published June 10, 2026 2:07pm EDT Facebook Twitter Threads Flipboard Comments Print Email Add Fox News on Google close Video Pennsylvania Attorney General details his state’s $12 million Medicaid fraud bust Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday explains a $12 million Medicaid bust of a Philadelphia pharmacy that allegedly fraudulently collected millions in Medicaid reimbursements for prescriptions it never fulfilled.
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