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(Washington, D.C., December 10, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Aubrey J.D. Bettencourt Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service announced the approval of six new state SNAP food-choice waivers under the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative. The waivers, submitted by Hawai‘i, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, will amend the statutory definition of “food for purchase” under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beginning in 2026.

The Trump administration has acknowledged a major error in figures it used to support a fraud investigation into New York’s Medicaid program, conceding that a key claim by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services significantly overstated the number of recipients of personal-care services in the state.

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The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Monday issued an advisory urging banks and other financial institutions to step up detection and reporting of healthcare fraud tied to Medicare, Medicaid and other public health benefit programs.

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Two Chinese pharmaceutical firms and six Chinese nationals are facing charges after prosecutors said they were part of a drug-trafficking network that provided material support to the Cártel del Golfo (CDG), a Mexican criminal syndicate that was designated as a foreign terrorist organization.