Medicaid Misspent Billions in Duplicate Payments

Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice.. - Fred Lucas@FredLucasWH 

...The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. 

This happened when a patient moved to a different state but Medicaid continued paying the insurance company in the state where the resident previously lived...