charge and in oversight capacity telling us that they will clean it up. i hope that is the case. i hope that is very much the case, mr. douglas. well, again, drew, we have taken as we ve reported, 38 clinics have already been suspended in 108 different locations. we re recertifying 1,000 providers. we ll continue at this and continue to root out the fraud in this program until it gets to the same integrity of the programs that we administer in the med-cale program. i appreciate you being on tonight and i know your boss didn t want to talk and i appreciate you. you have one talking point and answer every time by saying again, verifies you re giving the same answer over and over again. i don t understand your boss said and you ve said you couldn t talk before in the many requests that drew has made to talk to you, you couldn t talk before because of an on going investigation. the fact that you re talking noup, does that mean the investigation is over?
no right. these investigations continue. will continue on and we ll work with the department of justice until we take all these providers great. to the extent possible so why, why is it okay to talk now, even though the investigation is still going on, but over the last many weeks that drew has tried to get an interview, you couldn t talk because of on going investigation and now you can talk even though there is on going investigation. there is an on going investigation and i want to make sure, anderson, i m here and accountable and i am going to fix this program. all right. well, we ll continue to follow it mr. douglas. drew, do you have anything else? no, i ll look forward to the followups, mr. douglas, and hopefully we can see where your investigations bare fruit and see if indeed the felons running clinics will be weeded out and people falsely billing will be weeded out as well. mr. douglas appreciate it. thank you very much. thank you. thank
found is appalling mr. douglas you didn t just get born last year. this thing for the last two years, according to our reporting you paid $94 million to clinics that showed signs of questionable billing or fraud. you say you ve been investigating this for a long time. you ve been throwing money away during this time, more than half a billion-dollar has been spent over the past six years. you can t talk about the past. can you not answer the question who was responsible for years of lack of oversight? you must have studied this. again, anderson, the sleg slay tour and governor brown moved the program directly responsible and accountable to me so you have no idea what happened in the past? you have no idea who is responsible? what we what my focus is on anderson is make as you were i root out all the fraud that we have all investigators, all resources to root out the fraud how many clinics have you suspended in the year you ve
answers have been provided. we have a very reporter: i understand. we have a very extensive fraud and investigation unit in medical that is one of the best in the country. reporter: two questions that s all i have to say. reporter: are you concerned that there is massive fraud because that s what we re finding out and two number, as secretary of health could you have toby douglas sit down and talk about our specific questions? excuse me, i am reporter: but that is hardly the end of the story. would you get security for me? reporter: our confrontational exchange with california s secretary of health and human services may in fact have been the trigger for a major state-wide crack down. one month later, nearly to the day, the state sent out this news release, 16 drug rehab centers are under investigation and temporary suspended and just this week, california announced that figure has jumped to 108 rehab centers.
reporter: i understand. we have a very extensive fraud and investigation units that is one of the best in the countries. that s all i have to say. reporter: can you concerned that there is massive fraud? that s what we re finding out. and number two, as secretary of health, could you have toby douglas sit down and talk to us about our specific questions? but that is hardly the end of the story. would you get security? reporter: our exchange with california s secretary of health and human services may in fact have been the trigger for a major statewide crackdown. one month later, nearly to the day, the state sent out this news release. 16 drug rehab centers are under investigation and temporarily suspended. and just this week, california announced that figure has now jumped to 108 rehab centers. drew joins me now, with toby douglas, director of the