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CMS expands marketplace anti-fraud push, cancels enrollments

A photo of a press conference by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Vice President JD Vance, showing 3 men, including the vice president and CMS Administrator Mehmet in suits, and a woman in a red dress holding up a poster with information about ACA-related fraud.
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CMS says it canceled unauthorized Marketplace enrollments, targeted non-compliant brokers, and added new safeguards to reduce fraud.

As part of what the agency is calling “anti-fraud actions,” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that it terminated approximately 315,000 enrollments covering more than 760,000 individuals on August 31 after determining that the enrollments were “unauthorized” following reviews conducted with health insurance companies.

The agency said it expects the

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