The alleged overpayments were first flagged by the state's fraud detection contractor, but the lawsuit claims industry-friendly officials in the state's Medicaid office bowed to political pressure and in 2017 began curtailing efforts to recoup the improper payments.

Major Indiana managed care organizations and health systems are blamed for defrauding the state Medicaid system by tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars, says a newly unsealed whistleblower | A newly unsealed lawsuit alleges major health insurers and health systems defrauded Indiana Medicaid by hundreds of millions of dollars,

Newly unsealed federal court docs show lawmakers ignored overpayment claims in an Indiana Medicaid case. Yahoo Sports

A recently unsealed federal lawsuit alleges Indiana’s Medicaid program was politically pressured into looking the other way when hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments were identified. The IndyStar was first on the story filed by James McCullough and James Holder,