Nevada Government Investigation

The Attorney General's office operates the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), which is federally mandated under 42 U.S.C. § 1396b(q) to investigate and prosecute provider fraud. We submitted evidence of hundreds of questionable providers billing Nevada Medicaid and asked for the status of any investigation.

Active obstruction. The AG's office acknowledged receipt of the original complaint through their automated ticketing system (RT #81389). The March 2026 follow-up specifically about Medicaid fraud received no response. In April 2026, the MFCU forwarded us to the SUR unit rather than investigating directly. When we called SUR to present evidence on 276 questionable providers, the administrative staff hung up on us. A second call two days later — prompted by AG Ford's public claims of “cracking down” on Medicaid fraud — resulted in being told the assigned reviewer would not speak with us or investigate, and to email [email protected]. The AG's office has not requested our evidence, assigned an investigator, or taken any documented action on the hundreds of flagged providers.

The Secretary of State's Business License Compliance division is responsible for ensuring that businesses operating in Nevada maintain valid registrations. Our analysis found providers billing millions to Medicaid while having revoked, expired, or non-existent Nevada business licenses. We sent the SOS our analysis and linked directly to the evidence.

Awaiting response. The Medicaid fraud analysis was sent today. Previous interactions with the SOS have been limited to campaign finance data requests and business registration lookups. The SOS has not previously been engaged on the Medicaid fraud issue specifically. We will update this section when a response is received.

The Governor has executive authority under NRS 223.120 to ensure compliance with state laws across all agencies. We contacted the Governor's Constituent Services, the Lt. Governor's office (Stavros Anthony), and staff including Chief of Staff Rudy Pamintuan and Sally Christensen. Separate public records requests were filed with the Governor's Office and Nevada DHHS.

Bureaucratic pass-through. The Governor's Constituent Services forwarded our complaint to the AG's office (which produced complaint #81389) but took no independent action. The Lt. Governor's office engaged in scheduling discussions but did not follow up on the substance of the fraud evidence. DHHS responded to public records requests through their records center but did not address the underlying fraud concerns. Multiple submissions through the Governor's official web form produced only automated acknowledgments.

Nevada Medicaid spent over $1.2 billion in 2024 alone. Our analysis identifies hundreds of providers with patterns that warrant investigation: providers billing without active business licenses, providers with statistical anomalies in their claim patterns, and providers appearing on the federal OIG exclusion list.

We have presented this evidence to every relevant state office. The Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has not opened an investigation based on our reports. The Secretary of State's compliance division has not acted on the business license violations we documented. The Governor's office forwarded our complaint and moved on.

We will continue to update this page as we receive responses. If any of these offices takes action, we will document it here with the same transparency we apply to everything else on this site.

If you have information about Medicaid fraud in Nevada, you can report it to the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Nevada Attorney General, or submit a tip through our anonymous tip system.