North Carolina Official: 47,000 Percent Rise in Medicaid Autism Therapy Billings ‘Begs an Audit’

A North Carolina official recently highlighted possible fraud within his state’s Medicaid program surrounding autism treatments.

State Auditor Dave Boliek said there was a suspicious 47,000 percent rise in autism therapy billings that officials are investigating, Fox News reported Saturday.

Boliek told Fox:

Those are vital services to folks and individuals that need that therapy. But when you have, like in North Carolina, a system that went from $1.4 million or so in total billings for autism therapy to more than $660 million a year in billings on autism therapy within a five-year range, that begs an audit from the state auditor, who in North Carolina, we are the top watchdog agency for taxpayer waste, fraud, and abuse prevention. So we’ve dug down into that or in the middle of that.

The news comes just after Breitbart News reported that Vice President JD Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud continues