In a massive, long-overdue crackdown on government waste and rampant abuse, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially put all 50 states on notice.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, a federal HHS Office of Inspector General audit found Coloradomade at least $77.8 millionin improper fee-for-service Medicaid payments for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy for children diagnosed with autism in 2022-2023 alone.
Every single one of the 100 sampled enrollee-months contained at least one improper or potentially improper claim. Auditors flagged another $207+ million in potentially improper payments.
Similar horror shows hit Wisconsin($18.5 million improper), Indiana, and Maine, with confirmed improper payments across audited states totaling around $198 million (roughly 31% of the spending reviewed in those samples).
The Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) hasarrested two Muslim women in Minnesotafor defrauding American taxpayers of more than $21 million through a brazen scheme targeting the state’s autism services program.
Now the feds are going nationwide.
CMS has issued a direct call to all 50 states to re-evaluate high-risk ABA providers, remove illegitimate ones, and report back with plans to clean house. States have tight deadlines — 10 business days to respond and 30 days for a full strategy.
This comes alongside the new AERO initiative (Audit Enforcement and Risk Oversight), which is using AI and aggressive follow-up to finally hold states accountable for years of ignored audit failures and chronic noncompliance across HHS programs.
The spending numbers are insane and demand scrutiny:
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. HHS is now launching a wide-scale AUDIT of all 50 states’ taxpayer AUTISM programs due to rampant fraud
Source: The Gateway Pundit
