I work in state mcaid. Most of the fraud I hear about comes from providers, not recipients. Yet in public discussion the conversation is always about people who don't "deserve" healthcare. It's sick.
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Matthew Cortland (they)
People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
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The fraud is 99.99% providers upcoding (coding a service at a higher level of complexity) and unbundling (multiple codes for a service that has one inclusive code).
0.01% is patients sharing their insurance like a Netflix password.