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And it ultimately diverts resources away from kids who truly have autism.

Because if every kid in the neighborhood has autism, then nobody has autism in terms of how you can manage them.

There was one behavioral... And by the way, these kids, they carry that diagnosis of autism the rest of their lives.

Their mom made a bad decision.

The kid pays the price for the rest of their life.

There's one behavioral health organization, Mr. Vice President in Minnesota.

They received $11.5 million in Medicaid payments, but the top biller submitted 450 days where they claimed they were working more than 24 hours a day.

I mean, even in the White House, that's tough.

It's hard to work more than 24 hours a day.

How it didn't get picked up is shocking to us at CMS.

There are other red flags in Minnesota, including hundreds of beneficiaries receiving treatment linked to one location, which was impossible physically to be true.

We had eight beneficiaries in one of these substance use disorder centers, eight who were already dead, but the center was still billing us.

Not only did they let the person pass, they kept billing for it.

That's the level of average we're talking about.

The CMS is done paying and chasing.

We don't think jail sentences are the right way out.

These criminals flee the country.

Many are foreign nationals.

Instead, we're launching the largest action against fraud that we've ever taken.

The money's not going to ever leave the building again.