A private clinic where doctors offer treatment to Medicaid patients, characterized by perfunctory care, a rapid turnover of clients, and often by unscrupulous billing of the state for unnecessary or non-existent services.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The New York Times.
Definition of Medicaid mill in US English:
Medicaid mill
noun
US informal
A private clinic where doctors offer treatment to Medicaid patients, characterized by perfunctory care, a rapid turnover of clients, and often by unscrupulous billing of the state for unnecessary or non-existent services.