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Updated with 227M records · Feb 2026 HHS Data Release
Last updated: February 2026

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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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.

Latest Investigations

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Key Findings

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We cross-referenced 82,714 OIG-excluded providers against Medicaid billing data and found 40 excluded providers still appearing in payment records.

Spending Growth

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Medicaid spending grew $76.32B from 2018 to 2024

-6.9% YoY

Highest-Spending Providers

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Top States by Provider Spending

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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

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%

Open & free

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