Is Tim Walz 7 years late & $750,000,000 short?

This afternoon, Alpha News reported that Timely Tim Walz finally announced "that he has ordered a 'third-party audit of billing for 14 high-risk Medicaid services' amid widespread fraud in state government." First, this audit is long overdue. Next, Minnesota's taxpayers lost almost $750,000,000 through Medicaid fraud. I wrote here about former Legislative Auditor James Nobles' scathing op-ed. In that op-ed, Nobles wrote that "the theft of millions of tax dollars from Minnesota programs resulted not just from the actions of thieves but also from the failure of state executive officials to implement basic financial safeguards recommended in numerous audit reports for several years."

In the Alpha article, "The governor’s office said the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has contracted with Optum, which will analyze Medicaid fee-for-service claims data and flag potential issues for DHS review. Optum’s analytics will identify irregularities such as missing documentation, unusually high billing patterns, or inconsistencies suggesting that a claim may not meet program requirements."

Why wasn't this implemented years ago? Was the Walz administration that disinterested in monitoring this fraud? The Walz administration didn't show much in the way of interest in protecting taxpayers.

GOP Gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson offered this quote upon hearing this news:
The state needs to re-evaluate its role in funding nonprofit organizations and provide sunset requirements for those organizations who receive public dollars. As governor, I will clean out the executive branch and appoint men and women with Godly character who will do the right thing with a WE THE PEOPLE preamble mindset. Secondly, I would require mandatory audits no less than twice a year. Lastly, I would provide a fraud hotline for employees to use and offer monetary awards for legitimate cases of fraud.
That sounds like the type of policy we should've had in place the past 7 years. Shame on the Walz administration and the DFL legislature for not requiring these safeguards. Check this out:

Does that sound like a professional operation? For me, it sounds quite amateurish.

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