Maine is a 90% white state, and only about 2% black. Yet somehow, from 2021 through 2024, at least 90% of new Medicaid agencies in Maine were created by people with African or Arabic names. They collected more than $190 million.
What are the odds that even half of this is legitimate?
We wanted to understand why Medicaid agencies were proliferating in Maine, so we obtained spending data by provider for 2019-2024. When we eliminated firms that billed some amount in 2019 or 2020, these were the start-ups we were left with.