Obamacare Fraud Scheme

(Helena) — Montana State Auditor and Commissioner of Insurance James Brown announces that his agency has stopped an additional $14 million in fraudulent claims flowing from the previously identified Obamacare fraud scheme that targeted Montana’s native communities. Adding the $14 million in stopped payments to the previous total from January of 2026, Brown has now clawed back $37.3 million of the nearly $55 million in wrongful billing identified by his office.
After nearly a year-long investigation, the Auditor’s office identified $54.7 million in fraudulent claims related to the scheme and secured $23.3 million in rescissions by January 2026. The office has identified 207 suspected fraudulent insurance enrollments and rescinded 126 policies to date – up from 80 in January.