Bombshell report exposes healthcare fraud schemes as taxpayers lose up to $521 billion annually

FIRST ON FOX: House GOP lawmakers are rolling out a slew of new bills after a bombshell report found that hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are potentially being targeted by fraudsters every year.

As people across the U.S. are battling high costs that make it hard to make ends meet, a report released Tuesday by the House Energy & Commerce Committee warns that federally subsidized healthcare programs are rife with fraud and abuse — “impacting every single American, in one way or another.”

While no estimate for Medicare and Medicaid fraud exists specifically, the report noted, a 2024 estimate by...