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Attorney General Bill McCollum is asking the federal government for more authority to fight Medicaid fraud. The state Agency for Health Care Administration joined McCollum’s call, asking for a waiver from the federal government to increase the state’s investigative authority. Tom Arnold, AHCA Secretary, says allowing Florida to view electronic Medicaid files will increase the state’s ability to catch people scamming the system.

“The key for us is more eyes on the target. In the managed care area we are going to continue to enforce our contract which we think are strong, but we need to have some additional resources in term of monitoring those,” said Arnold.

Last year the state busted 200 million dollars worth of Medicaid fraud. There’s an estimated two billion more out there.