Comment by Aurornis

> Presumably, it's because a lot of them are getting Medicaid despite not being eligible to

How would this even work? You can’t just start billing things to Medicaid if you’re ineligible for it. That would be like you deciding to bill United Healthcare for something despite not being a customer. How is this hypothetical fraud supposed to work? What am I missing?

> Isn't the point of every audit, investigation, etc. to find things that aren't being done correctly?

ICE isn’t auditing Medicaid. They’re trying to use records to find people to detain and deport which is an orthogonal dataset.

The only plausible explanation is that they’re using medical records as an additional source of data on people who live in houses that they’re raiding or looking at.

Which is insane. Imagine police rolling up to your front door on suspicion of something and loading up a system which has your medical records.