Posted on 10/15/2026 9:54:01 AM PDT by george76
Kennedy stated that the purge would save taxpayers $738 million in 2026 alone and that future savings would reach an annualized rate of $1.5 billion.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced the purge of 189,000 subsidized Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP enrollments for deceased persons or duplicate enrollees, saying the move would stop more than $1 billion in erroneous payments to insurance companies annually.
"In 2026, CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] identified 189,000 subsidized enrollments involving duplicate Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP coverage on record showing the enrollee has died," he said in a press conference. "CMS acted to remove improper subsidies in all these cases."
Kennedy stated that the purge would save taxpayers $738 million in 2026 alone and that future savings would reach an annualized rate of $1.5 billion.
"Each of those figures represents a payment that would otherwise have gone to an insurance company, not to an American citizen," he added. He further highlighted that CMS had contacted the enrollees or their estates to give them 30 days to address any potential mistakes.
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Which Democratic AG’s will file for injunctive relief on Nov 4th?
Welcome to Universal HC waste.
Now do the same for fraudulent recipients.
Remember when Obama said he would pay for his stupid programs by cutting waste and fraud?
That was funny...
Or which federal judge will declare them undead?
Sure. So when do I get a tax refund?
In 25+ states, both Red and Blue, all the big states, the DEAD have been intentional FRAUD by Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System. IES has an EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index,. By definition a Master Person Index cannot have the known DEAD as active.
So the criminal FRAUDSTER Deloitte is going to get away with 14 years of CAPITATION payments for the DEAD...but not in the future?
Legacy.Com is the way to identify most of the dead the earliest. Provider claims reports also report the dead and that can be fed backwards into the Eligibility System.
County Coroners report deatths to the states which report deaths to HHS which sends them thru SS before they reach Federal Medicaid attention...which HHS then sends back to the State Health Departments and then eventually to Deloitte. During this whole process some of the DEAD are split off for non-dead reasons.
Thus that a dead person is dead is not disputed. But the cause of death, pneumonia or COVID is in dispute and somehow disputed deaths do not make it in some versions of the database.
DUPLICATES
Next is for RFK/OZ to address DUPLICATES. Sue Smith, Susan Smith, Susan Jones-Smith have the same DOB, SSN, address and are the same person, but 3 distinct ID and benefit plans in Delolitte IES. In most cases Sue is unsophisticated and doesn’t intentionally use 3 very confusing names. But Deloitte, which claims its H1b are compete, does not keep a clean database and EMPI.
Deloitte is paid a Capitation ($1,000 to 1500 per year) for each DEAD, Duplicate and ghost person in IES.
Now do the same for fraudulent recipients.
Deloitte is the name of the #1 FRAUDULENT recipient of money for the DEAD...and for DUPLICATES... and for GHOSTS.
Deloitte IES was designed and developed in 2013-14 to handle the massive increase in both size and complexity of welfare under Obama. IES was intentionally designed to collect CAPITATION money off the DEAD, DUPLICATES, GHOSTS.
HHS pays each state Federal money for most, but not all of welfare. Each state pays a minor amount. The formula is complicated. But a key par of it is an amount of money for each recipient. Thus the more recipients, the more money for each state.
In turn, the states contract with IT Vendors and Insurance Companies and Nursing Homes and other Providers and vendors. Many of these contracts are a CAPITATION amount per person. So the more DEAD, DUPLICATES, GHOSTS in the database the more money for everyone in the system.
In 25+ states Deloitte contracts to provide an EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index. Deloitte fraud in this EMPI of the IES is the #1 fraud that makes much of the other fraud possible.
There they go again. Remember the ad where the Republicans pushed granny off the cliff in her wheelchair? Now they are denying healthcare to people too deceased to complain.
“ENROLLEES OR ‘THEIR ESTATES’?????/
IF THEY ARE DEAD-—WHY WOULD THEY STILL BE GETTING BENEFITS???
Got a Medicare Explanation of Benefits a few years ago during Covid.
Some lab charged Medicare for covid analysis supposedly on request from my doctor.
It was fraud.
I called the fraud hotline at HHS. After twenty minutes or so of getting handed around, I spoke with the responsible bureaucrat.
He said they were aware of this lab. Oh. That was it. No mention of cutting it off or initiating criminal referrals to the DOJ.
Things have changed under Trump/RFKJ.
It doesn’t seem unusual for 185,000 people over 65 or severely disabled, Medicare requirements, to die at numbers larger than other groups.
What does seem questionable is that only 185,000 died from a group number close to 50 million.
“Now do the same for fraudulent recipients.”
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Isn’t that the whole purpose of the review?
Ok, you got me there - payments made to any entity based on dead claimants would be fraud... I was thinking illegal aliens and such.
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