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Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Recovery: 12 Cents per Dollar
Author: Minnesota Medicaid Transparency Project | Last updated: March 23, 2026
Minnesota recovers 12.4 cents per fraud dollar — lowest of 10 states. $427M documented, $52.8M recovered, and 82–91% of ordered restitution unpaid.
Part of the Minnesota Medicaid Transparency Project — an independent, data-driven investigation of $23 billion in annual Medicaid spending across 87 counties.
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