DOGE Helped Uncover the Biggest Health Care Heist in American History

Victoria Taft : Sep 25, 2025
PJ Media

"DOGE is involved. The president has been very clear that he wants this fraud, waste and abuse crushed. That's the word that's used. DOGE is not just about cutting waste and fraud within government. [It] has been actively involved at CMS in helping us address places where fraud is existing that we never thought to look." -Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

[PJMedia.com] What if I told you that cartels and other bad actors from around the world conspired to undermine the integrity of the health care system in the US and came way too close to succeeding? If you didn't hear about the bust of 324 people; the US-based cartel shell medical supply companies; the pill mills pushing opioids; the doctors on the take; or how law enforcement captured many of the bad guys at the US border and airports as they rushed to escape, that's understandable. The feds revealed this potential $14.6 billion "depth charge" planted inside the Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance programs in June, while most people were away on summer vacation. (Screengrab image: via X-DOGE)

Why did transnational organizations go after these particular programs? "Criminals go where the money is," Acting Health and Human Services Inspector General, Juliet Hodgkins said at a news conference about "the largest health care fraud takedown in American history." There's more than $1.4 trillion spent by these government programs per year, and the bad guys have tried, by hook or by crook, and even with the aid of AI, to set into motion plans to steal nearly $15 billion. They got away with just shy of $3 billion before they were caught, and their other frauds were frozen in their tracks. (Image: iStock-RapidEye)

If this bust looks to you like it had Elon Musk's old Department of Government Efficiency fingerprints on it, you'd be right. Using AI and law enforcement tactics, the DOGE team worked with HHS, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and an all-hands-on-deck array of federal agents from the DEA, FBI, and health care agencies to track down all fraud leads, according to Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As a result, the feds are setting up a healthcare data fusion center to detect where fraud spikes are occurring in near real time... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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