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What Billing Patterns Actually Look Like - Too Early To Say

Fraud-excluded providers bill at more than double the non-excluded rate. Billing intensity is the signal; label contamination and proxy variable bias are the noise.

Feb 2026 · Methodology

What 227 Million Rows of Medicaid Data Can and Can't Tell Us - Too Early To Say

The DOGE-released Medicaid dataset has 227 million rows and 7 columns. Here's what it contains, what's missing, and why the gap matters.

Feb 2026 · Methodology

Can a Classifier Find What Investigators Miss? - Too Early To Say

A prospective classifier captures 1 in 4 future fraud exclusions from billing intensity alone. The signal is fraud-specific.

Feb 2026 · Methodology

The Label That Isn't: Why "Excluded" Doesn't Mean "Fraudulent" - Too Early To Say

40% of LEIE exclusions are license revocations, not fraud. Why the federal exclusion list is a contaminated label for detection.

Feb 2026 · Methodology