Fraudit
Follow the money.
Total Medicare Payments Tracked
across — providers · — flagged high-risk · 0 tips submitted
Real-time fraud risk scores built on public government data — search any provider, address, city, state, or zip code.
Top 50 Highest-Flagged Providers
Live RankingsWhy This Exists
In early 2026, independent journalist Nick Shirley published a 40-minute video documenting over $170 million in suspected Medicaid fraud in California — ghost daycares, phantom hospice patients, and addresses billing millions with no building in sight. He did it the hard way: driving to addresses with a camera.
His work was so compelling he was called to testify before Congress. But the tool he needed to do that investigation in secondsinstead of months didn't exist. So we built it.
Watch Nick Shirley's InvestigationWhat Fraudit Does
- ▸Ingests all public CMS Medicare/Medicaid payment data, USASpending.gov, IRS 990s, state registries, and county assessor records
- ▸Scores every provider 0–100 based on statistical anomalies — billing outliers, enrollment spikes, cross-owner links, license age vs. volume
- ▸Generates shareable, journalist-friendly reports with a single URL — so a finding that took Nick months takes 3 seconds
- ▸Accepts anonymous public tips on any provider — crowdsourced ground truth that improves the model over time
Built for Journalists
We build for the investigators who do the work. These journalists have used public data to expose what governments don't want found — and every confirmed case they publish becomes training data that makes Fraudit more accurate.
Exposed $170M+ in CA Medicaid fraud. Testified before Congress. The reason this tool exists.
@nickshirley →Pioneered the Surgeon Scorecard and Dollars for Docs — the standard for public data journalism.
propublica.org →FOIA request platform that has produced thousands of government document disclosures.
muckrock.com →Are you an investigative journalist using public data to expose government fraud? We want to support your work.
The Problem We're Solving
Estimated annual Medicare and Medicaid fraud in the US, per CMS and HHS OIG estimates
The length of Nick Shirley's investigation video — representing months of manual driving and cross-referencing
How long a Fraudit search takes to surface the same anomalies — built entirely on data that was already public
Every data source Fraudit uses is publicly available. CMS publishes provider payment data. USASpending.gov publishes every federal contract and grant. IRS 990s are public record. State business registries are online. County assessor data is open. The information was always there — it just needed to be assembled.
Important: Fraudit surfaces statistical anomalies from public data. A high risk score means a provider's billing patterns deviate significantly from peers — it is not proof of fraud, wrongdoing, or illegal activity. All findings should be independently verified before publication or action. Fraudit is a research tool, not an enforcement instrument.