Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services dropped an unprecedented amount of new data to improve public transparency and reduce fraud: over 270 million payments made by Medicaid from 2018-2024. They amount to over a trillion dollars worth of taxpayer funds.

Open the Books broke down the data.

Payment amounts generally increased over time, with a notable bump starting in 2020 in response to COVID-related spending and increased enrollment due to economic hardship caused by government-imposed economic shutdowns.

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