Minnesota To Freeze New Provider Enrollments In 13 Medicaid Social Services At High Risk For Fraud

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) will freeze new provider enrollments for six months for 13 categories of Medicaid services at high risk for fraud, according to an announcement issued on January 8, 2026. No start date was announced. Currently enrolled provider organizations can continue to serve beneficiaries in the service areas they are already approved to provide.

DHS is working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement the freeze. CMS had directed DHS to freeze new provider organization enrollments as a fraud-prevention measure.

On October 27, 2025, DHS notified CMS it had paused . . .