"Beyond all reckoning, the goofy DOGE geniuses did it! It's done. For six years, they guarded this data like the nuclear codes. Yesterday, DOGE slapped it on the internet, ribbon-wrapped for Valentine's Day. DOGE whose death was obviously slightly exaggerated just dropped a tactical nuke on both the vaccine debate and welfare fraud and launched the biggest crowdsourcing project in human history. Yesterday, Axios ran the story headlined, "Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release."
"The release was framed as an anti-fraud move, surfing a wave of public outrage washing out of Minneapolis and Nick Shirley's viral video. In making the announcement (on X, of course), DOGE-HHS pointed out, "For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota." The space billionaire quickly chimed in. "Medicaid data has been open-sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify," Musk wrote. "DOGE is not a department, it's a state of mind," he added. Wastin' away again in DOGE-eritaville. "
"The 11GB file can be searched or downloaded at OpenData HHS, and includes aggregated provider-level claims data, by billing code, by month, between 2018 and 2024 bookending the whole pandemic period. (Note It does not contain patient-level data.) It includes records from all Medicaid claims submitted by providers for reimbursement during that period."
"This is clearly not just a DOGE project. It is a coordinated effort across the Trump Administration. For example, timed with the release of the data, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a related new program. Not only have they open-sourced the research, but they have gamified it. Bessent said Treasury was setting up a website for people to report Medicare fraud and they'll get up to 30% of whatever's fined and recovered."
And that also released some covid/cancer data:
"Unaccountably, the CDC stopped updating cancer incidence data in 2022. Not a peep since, except excuses about how difficult the pandemic made data collection. No government agency has ever plotted vaccinations against various adverse diagnoses, even though maddeningly that data has been available in the vast Medicaid database the whole time. To give you an idea, 70% of most hospitals' revenue comes from Medicaid/Medicare, for everything from the initial jab, your colonoscopy, the MRI, chemo, radiation, and then evaluating you for hospice care."
"While most folks were off and running hunting for fraud bounties, the covid warriors instantly saw the other, riper fruit hanging higher up in the HHS data's branches. For example, optical mouse inventor and anti-vaxxer Steve Kirsch was, apparently, up till midnight last night, crunching numbers: "
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"The release was framed as an anti-fraud move, surfing a wave of public outrage washing out of Minneapolis and Nick Shirley's viral video. In making the announcement (on X, of course), DOGE-HHS pointed out, "For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota." The space billionaire quickly chimed in. "Medicaid data has been open-sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify," Musk wrote. "DOGE is not a department, it's a state of mind," he added. Wastin' away again in DOGE-eritaville. "
"The 11GB file can be searched or downloaded at OpenData HHS, and includes aggregated provider-level claims data, by billing code, by month, between 2018 and 2024 bookending the whole pandemic period. (Note It does not contain patient-level data.) It includes records from all Medicaid claims submitted by providers for reimbursement during that period."
"This is clearly not just a DOGE project. It is a coordinated effort across the Trump Administration. For example, timed with the release of the data, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a related new program. Not only have they open-sourced the research, but they have gamified it. Bessent said Treasury was setting up a website for people to report Medicare fraud and they'll get up to 30% of whatever's fined and recovered."
And that also released some covid/cancer data:
"Unaccountably, the CDC stopped updating cancer incidence data in 2022. Not a peep since, except excuses about how difficult the pandemic made data collection. No government agency has ever plotted vaccinations against various adverse diagnoses, even though maddeningly that data has been available in the vast Medicaid database the whole time. To give you an idea, 70% of most hospitals' revenue comes from Medicaid/Medicare, for everything from the initial jab, your colonoscopy, the MRI, chemo, radiation, and then evaluating you for hospice care."
"While most folks were off and running hunting for fraud bounties, the covid warriors instantly saw the other, riper fruit hanging higher up in the HHS data's branches. For example, optical mouse inventor and anti-vaxxer Steve Kirsch was, apparently, up till midnight last night, crunching numbers: "
Credit: Jeff Childers Coffee and Covid Substack
https://substack.com/@coffeeandcovid/note/c-214463853?r=dzrj0&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
