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Picking Uncle Sam's pockets, with Jetson Leder-Luis

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This week I'm joined by Jetson, an economist specializing in frauds against the government, mostly in healthcare spending. We chat about the intersection between benefits/payment fraud and financial fraud (making this a good companion to prior conversations). The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero, but perhaps at prevailing margins, we could cut off tens of billions of dollars for work which is pretty pedestrian in character. Sponsors Check is the leading payroll infrastructure provider and pioneer of embedded payroll. Check makes it easy for any SaaS platform to build a payroll business, and already powers 60+ popular platforms. Head to checkhq.com/complex and tell them patio11 sent you. Building an enterprise-ready SaaS app? WorkOS has got you covered with easy-to-integrate APIs for SAML, SCIM, and more. Start now at https://bit.ly/WorkOS-Turpentine-Network Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:04) Overview of Medicare/Medicaid (02:41) Estimated $50-100B fraud losses (03:31) Taxonomy of heal

How the government loses tens of billions to healthcare fraud, and what to do about it. This week I'm joined by Jetson, an economist specializing in frauds against the government, mostly in healthcare spending. We chat about the intersection between benefits/payment fraud and financial fraud (making this a good companion to prior conversations ). The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero , but perhaps at prevailing margins, we could cut off tens of billions of dollars for work which is pretty pedestrian in character. Sponsors Check is the leading payroll infrastructure provider and pioneer of em

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