Follow the money.
$1.09 trillion in
Medicaid spending.
We analyzed every Medicaid billing record released by HHS — and ran code-specific fraud detection across 617,000+ providers. 1860 providers raised red flags — collectively billing $226.2 billion in taxpayer funds.
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🔍 Key Finding
Analysis of 227 million Medicaid billing records from HHS reveals that 1860 providers — collectively billing $226.2 billion of taxpayer money — display statistical patterns consistent with fraud, waste, or abuse. None appear on the federal OIG exclusion list, suggesting these are new, uninvestigated anomalies. The most common red flag: providers charging 3× or more than the national median for identical procedures.
Total Spending
$1.09T
2018–2024
Billing Records
227.1M
Individual claims
Providers Analyzed
618K
Unique NPIs
Flagged Providers
1860
statistical + ML analysis
Flagged Spending
$226.2B
billed by flagged providers
New here? Start with our top investigations, or jump straight to the Risk Watchlist to see all 1,860 flagged providers.
🔍 Featured Investigations
Pandemic Profiteers
Providers whose billing surged during COVID and never came back down
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City Fraud Hotspots
Brooklyn leads with 64 flagged providers billing $13.7B combined
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The Arizona Problem
46 new providers appeared post-pandemic with aggressive billing patterns
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Minnesota's Fraud Capital
How one state became a national hotspot for Medicaid billing anomalies
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Banned but Billing
OIG-excluded providers still appearing in Medicaid payment records
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Most Flagged Providers
Latest Investigations
Key Findings
We cross-referenced 82,714 OIG-excluded providers against Medicaid billing data and found 40 excluded providers still appearing in payment records.
Spending Growth
Medicaid spending grew $76.32B from 2018 to 2024
-6.9% YoY
Highest-Spending Providers
Public Partnerships LLC
Supports Brokerage · Latham, NY
$7.18B
89.8M claims
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Clinic/Center, Mental Health (Including Community Mental Health Center) · Los Angeles, CA
$6.78B
30.9M claims
Tempus Unlimited, Inc.
Voluntary or Charitable · Stoughton, MA
$5.57B
63.5M claims
Modivcare Solutions, LLC
Transportation Broker · Denver, CO
$3.09B
107.7M claims
Freedom Care LLC
Home Health · New Hyde Park, NY
$3.03B
22.0M claims
Top States by Provider Spending
How We Did This
We analyzed 227 million Medicaid billing records released by HHS, covering 617,503 providers (594,235 met minimum billing thresholds for ML scoring) and 10,881 procedure codes from 2018–2024. We combined 9 statistical risk tests — including 4 code-specific smart tests that compare each provider's cost per claim against the national median — with a random forest ML model (AUC: 0.77) trained on 514 OIG-excluded providers. These are unified into risk tiers (Critical, High, Elevated, ML Flag) for a single view of the most suspicious billing patterns.
Our Data
HHS Open Data
227 million Medicaid billing records from the HHS Open Data Platform, covering 2018–2024.
opendata.hhs.gov →
OIG Exclusion List
82,714 excluded providers from the HHS Office of Inspector General, cross-referenced against our watchlist.
oig.hhs.gov →
NPI Registry
Provider names, specialties, and locations from the CMS National Provider Identifier registry.
npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov →
Flagged Medicaid Spending Rate
$7,173
per second
$430,365
per minute
$25,821,918
per hour
Based on $226.2B billed by 1860 flagged providers over 7 years (2018–2024)
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227M
Public records analyzed
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3
Federal data sources
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9
Statistical risk tests
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100%
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