This appears to happen over ~5 years or more - so that's $2.7B vs $22.5T or about 0.012% of total spending.
The reason healthcare is broken in the US is not because of fraud.
It's due to the design.
By the way, fraud is inevitable.
We might be able to save about ~1% per year on healthcare if fraud was reduced to more reasonable levels. That's not going to move the needle at all.
That's a common example but that's not actually what happens at all.
If medicare is representative, fraud is 5-10% of total spend.
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Fraud is inevitable.
The FBI estimates fraud accounts for upwards of 10% of healthcare expenditures.
One of my clients had their business roped into a multi-million dollar medicaid fraud scheme. The FBI eventually handled it but it months and a lot of work to get the feds interested.
Imagine what $2.7B could do for transit or housing or relocating migrants or student loan debt relief or wildland firefighter pay raises or invasive species remediation. Hell, imagine what even 1% of $2.7B could do for independent journalism or the arts.