FRAUD WATCHERS
GOVERNMENT FRAUD · TRACKED
WASTE · FRAUD · ABUSE
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Washington loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud.
Fraud Watchers was created to track it.

SOURCE: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE — $233B TO $521B ANNUALLY, ITS ONLY GOVERNMENT-WIDE ESTIMATE EVER MADE
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Medicaid spending mapped across the Midwest, county by county
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FRAUD WATCHERS EXISTS TO TRACK FRAUD AGAINST GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS — A HUB FOR THE STORIES WASHINGTON IGNORES. TIPS ARE VETTED, PUBLISHED, AND PUSHED WHERE THEY HURT.
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FRAUD WATCHERS ORIGINAL RESEARCH · THE PRIME EXAMPLE
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Nowhere is fraud more obvious than Medicaid.

INSIDE THE MEDICAID FRAUD

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid spending leaped50%

SOURCE: CMS NATIONAL HEALTH EXPENDITURE DATA · $613.5B IN 2019 → $931.7B IN 2024
WHY?

Because the Biden administration paid first — and asked questions later.

Did you get 50% better services in that time?

THE MONEY, MAPPED · 2024

We mapped it — county by county — from 238 million federal claim rows.

PROVIDER-BILLED MEDICAID PAYMENTS IN THE FEDERAL CLAIMS DATA — SPENDING, NOT A FRAUD FIGURE. TAP A STATE TO DRILL IN.
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BUILT ON PUBLIC FEDERAL DATA. SPENDING FIGURES ARE NOT FRAUD FIGURES. ENFORCEMENT CASES LINK THEIR DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SOURCE AND CARRY REVIEW STATUS.