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Mehmet Oz: “It went from an estimated million dollars a year... to over…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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LIVE: White House briefing with Dr. Oz Mehmet

Published | Video Starts at 15:05

So in Minnesota, the state itself stopped non emergency medical transportation, which is when you need someone to take you to the doctor's appointment, they cut the whole program. It's gone, it's finished. Because they could not deal with the fraud. It went from an estimated million dollars a year... to over $100 million a year. car to a doctor's office? To over $100 million a year. So they killed the program. And that, of course, we believe because it doesn't provide the kind of care we desire for our fellow Americans can be problematic. (15:05–15:13)

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Asserts that the cost of a medical transportation program in Minnesota increased from $1 million to $100 million annually.

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