Terry Gerton You’ve done some looking into a data set that the DOGE team inside the Health and Human Services agency released. It described it as the largest Medicaid data set in department history. From your legal perspective, what was different about this release compared to prior transparency or fraud prevention efforts?
John Barry Well, there’s a couple things. This is the first time that the Department of Health and Human Services has ever released provider-level Medicaid data to the public. Previously, there were very limited ways to access Medicaid provider-level data, meaning data that you could look at specific providers and what they were billing, but that was required often institutional access and cost money. This is the first time that this has ever been available to the public, and specifically, a data set released to the public for the public to look at and try to find…
Review your monthly bank statements and credit card bills line-by-line to spot small “tester” transactions of R5 or R10, which fraudsters use to verify if a stolen card is still active.