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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Niloy Chakrabarti

A Single Minnesota Building Was Linked to $380 Million in Medicaid Billing — How Was This Allowed to Happen?

Oz (left) and O'Neill outside the Griggs Midway building in St. Paul, a former factory now linked to about 400 Medicaid businesses. (Credit: DrOzCMS/X.com)

In a startling development, a Minnesota building that was originally a linen factory is allegedly now housing around 400 Medicaid billing businesses. In a social media clip, Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), revealed that these businesses billed approximately $380 million (£278 million) to Medicaid.

'Behind me is the Griggs Midway building. It looks like a factory because it was a factory. Roughly 400 Medicaid businesses were started in the building behind me over the last several years,' Oz said while standing alongside acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill outside the building in St. Paul.

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