The Trump administration announced Wednesday a nationwide moratorium on new suppliers for certain medical equipment, citing a need to get a handle on the “fraud, waste, and abuse” in the industry that provides wheelchairs, artificial limbs and other equipment.
“The amount of fraud is so massive that it’s easier to open one of these suppliers than to open a bank account,” said Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz during a press conference with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Vice President JD Vance about tackling health care fraud.
