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Million spent on drug medi-cal, about $94 million, went to clinics that have shown questionable billing practices or signs of fraud. >> personally as a physician who cares for children on medi-cal i am outraged to learn people are cheating taxpayers. >> reporter: dr. richard pan, a california assemblyman who chairs the state's health care committee said today as a physician himself he's offended the fraud was allowed to go on. says as of today it must stop. >> the same people in there apologizing, the same people telling us we're now seeing all this systematic failure and fraud throughout the ...

Years, half, the nearly $186 million spent on drug medical went to clinics that have shown questionable billing practices or signs of fraud. >> personally as a physician who treats children on med-cal, i am outraged. >> reporter: the man who chairs the health care committee said today he was offended the fraud was allowed to go on, and says as of today it must stop. >> the same people that are in there apologizing, the same people sellitelling us we're se this fraud throughout the system are the same people telling us they're going to fix the system. are you satisfied? >> there is going to be ...

This past july cnn and the center for gettive reporting exposed widespread fraud in the nation's largest medicaid system. we found that in the last two years half the nearly 186 million dollar spent on drug medi-c medi-cal, about $94 million, went to clinics that have shown questionable billing practices or signs of fraud. >> personally as a physician who cares for children on medi-cal, i'm outraged to learn people are cheating taxpayers. >> reporter: dr. richard pan who heads the state's health care committee today says as a physician himself he's offended the fraud was allowed to go on and h...

County and state for reimbursement 789ment. for that signature, oliver is paid well. up to $1,500 aen moth, he told us, for the tr clinics where he has been working. but since this interview in january his business has gone bust because of this. >> i don't know. >> just one second, sir. >> did he call back and say he's not coming? >> this past july, cnn and the center for investigative reporting exposed widespread fraud in the nation's largest medicaid system. we found in the last two fiscal years, half of the nearly 186 million dollars spent for drug medical about $94 million went to clinics ...

For reimbursement. for that signature, oliver's paid pretty well. up to $1500 a month, he told us, for the clinics where he's been working. but since this interview in january, his business has gone bust because of this. >> wait a minute now. >> just one second, sir. >> did he call back and say he's not coming? >> reporter: this past july, cnn and the center for investigative reporting exposed widespread fraud in the nation's largest medicaid system. we found that in the last two fiscal years, half of the nearly $186 million spent for drug medi-cal went to clinics that have shown questionable ...