Medicaid misspending exceeded $140 billion in 2019 and 2020, according to estimates by the relevant federal agency, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with the money often spent on services for people not eligible for the program or improperly overpaid to health care providers and insurance companies, several experts told The Epoch Times. CMS is supposed to retrieve that money from states, although when a nonprofit foundation asked for information about those efforts, the agency didn’t respond. The nonprofit is now suing for the information. Medicaid pays more than $600 billion a year for health services for the poor, disabled, children, and the elderly. About two-thirds of the total used to come out of federal coffers, the rest from states. The March 2020 federal COVID-19 package increased the federal share of the spending to nearly three quarters. During the pandemic of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes …