Idaho AG Labrador touts state’s Medicaid fraud recovery at D.C. roundtable with VP JD Vance 

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador on Tuesday asked U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other top federal officials for broader access to Medicaid data to further fraud investigation and recovery. 

Labrador joined the vice president, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and attorneys general from 14 other states to discuss anti-fraud efforts. 

At the roundtable, Labrador touted Idaho’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which has recovered $900,756 in Medicaid fraud in federal fiscal year 2025, according to a press release from Labrador’s office. Of that total, $361,577 came through civil cases pursued in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho, the release said. Idaho’s unit has obtained five indictments in the most recent federal fiscal year, which ran Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025. 

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“Working with the White House and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, we recovered more Medicaid dollars outside of multistate settlements last year than any year in the past decade,” Labrador said in the press release. “With better data access and the right reforms, we can recover even more, and I’ll be going back to the Idaho Legislature to secure the additional authority and resources to help make that happen.”

The $361,577 was recovered from two related cases prosecuted in 2024 against KA Health Services and its owner Khalid Ameri, and KA Health Services employee Karen Canfield.

At the event, Labrador asked that Medicaid Fraud Control Units across the nation receive expanded access to federal Medicaid claims data, held by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to the release. He also requested changes to records laws that block investigators from evidence in substance use disorder cases. 

Labrador’s office only has jurisdiction over criminal fraud cases, he told News Nation in an interview ahead of the Tuesday meeting. He said plans to ask the Idaho Legislature for oversight of civil cases as well. 

The Idaho fraud unit is 75% federally funded and 25% state funded.  

Other than opening remarks by Vance, Ferguson and Miller, the roundtable was closed to the media and public. 

Nationally, the number of health care fraud cases sentenced declined in fiscal year 2025 to 340 from 395 the prior fiscal year, according to data from the United States Sentencing Commission.