FBI investigates Smart Therapy Center for Medicaid fraud amid surge in autism providers.

The FBI has served search warrants on Smart Therapy Center, an autism treatment provider, as part of a Medicaid fraud investigation. The state's Department of Human Services is investigating 15 autism providers, having withheld payments due to fraud allegations and forwarded cases to law enforcement. The number of autism providers has surged 700% since 2018, following Minnesota's decision to cover Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) services through Medicaid in 2017.

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