Henry Fire

@TRobinsonNewEra I’m convinced most of the people in these protests are really just photographers.

A new angle captures the moment a hero NYPD officer tackles the bomb throwing ISIS inspired Muslim who tried to kill Jake Lang and his team in New York City.

@M5squared True documents weren’t classified

OMG this guy did not have counsel sitting next to him. If true, hemay have just admitted to: 18 U.S.C. § 1924 unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents 18 U.S.C. § 793 mishandling or transmission of national defense information 18 U.S.C. § 2071 concealment removal or destruction of federal records 18 U.S.C. § 641 conversion of government property or records 5 U.S.C. § 552a unlawful disclosure of protected personal information under the Privacy Act 18 U.S.C. § 1519 obstruction of a federal investigation 18 U.S.C. § 1001 false statements or perjury under oath 3-10 years in prison and 20 years possible - he just admitted to

@MKBHD Open up 10-15 tabs in Google Chrome along MS Teams and the Claude desktop app

Testing the Macbook Neo these past couple days has been incredibly impressive, I've thrown everything at it to try to get an idea of what its ceiling actually is. Finishing the full review video now, to upload shortly...

@Austen In just 2 blocks of SW Houston, 3 random office buildings have sucked in $225M+ from Medicare/Medicaid since 2016, mostly shady home health charges including convicted fraudsters. The best part… OIG has an office in one of the buildings!

Note that we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of the most egregious forms of fraud. There are many ways to bilk Medicare/Medicaid, and so far we’re only talking about institutions that are billing millions and don’t even really exist.

@elonmusk @Rothmus In just 2 blocks of SW Houston, 3 random office buildings have sucked in $225M+ from Medicare/Medicaid since 2016, mostly shady home health codes. 3 convictions. 1 new guilty plea + cooperating witness. But they keep on billing!

@Rothmus Minnesota is bad, but fraud in California and New York is >1000% worse

@DutchRojas @OIGatHHS Full article discussing it here.

@DutchRojas 30 providers in these 3 nondescript buildings billed Texas Medicaid $225M, mostly for elderly/disabled home care. Fed records: one provider billed as if personally bathing/dressing/feeding 21 patients at once, every day, for years. @OIGatHHS has an office in one of these bldgs.

Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do States require 1,500 hours of supervised training to cut hair but 40 hours to treat a child with autism? The answer is not that we care less about children than hair. The answer is that the hair salon lobby does not have a mechanism to bill Medicaid $68 an hour for each client. When you create a payment system that rewards volume, you create an incentive to minimize cost per unit. Training is a cost. Qualified supervision is a cost. Documentation is a cost. Everything that makes therapy therapeutic is a cost. Private equity completed 85% of all mergers in autism services between 2017 and 2022. They did not buy these companies to improve outcomes. They bought them because the payment structure rewards throughput and the training requirements are low enough that throughput is achievable at scale. The children are not the customer. They are the billing unit. Is that a moral failure? Or a perfectly rational response to the incentive structure that was built? Which means the question is not “how did this happen.” The question is “who built the incentive structure and why haven’t we asked them about it.” Link below… 👇

Sure most use HSAs like tax-free FSAs for today's bills, not retirement. But calling it 'not great' bc many can't max it is like saying 401k or even HYSAs suck for folks who need cash now. If you *can* pay current costs OOP & let it ride: triple tax-free (contribute/grow/withdraw for medical), its the best tax-advantaged tool W-2s have if you maximize it.

The HSA isn't a stealth IRA for everyone. It's a stealth IRA for people who can self-insure for decades without touching it. Most people? They're covering medical costs tax-free. That's valuable. But it's not retirement wealth-building.

@elon_hilda Think I am probably all set. Thanks though!

@zerohedge Wait until you compare publicly available data sets and find even more fraud. A simple lookup between exclusion list and medicare billing found staggering fraud! x.com/HenryFire0/sta…

100% Of Audited Medicaid Claims For Autism Care In Colorado Were Improper Or Flawed: Report zerohedge.com/political/100-…

Sources: - CMS Medicare Part B 2016–2023 - CMS Part D Prescribers 2016–2023 - OIG LEIE - CMS Open Payments 2017–2022 - PACER (*USA v. Miranda*, 5:13-cr-01406 S.D. Tex.) - TX Medical Board public license lookup. All public. All verifiable. @OIGatHHS @TheJusticeDept @TexasTribune @propublica @zerohedge

The False Claims Act allows the government to collect up to $27,894 per false claim, plus treble damages on actual losses. 644,349 individual claim lines × $27,894 = $17.97 billion in maximum statutory penalties. Plus treble damages on $59.6M in actual losses. Courts apply proportionality — no one expects $18 billion. But even 1% of the statutory maximum is $180 million.

Eduardo Miranda, MD an oncologist, Laredo, TX, was convicted of billing Medicare for counterfeit chemotherapy drugs while giving cancer patients non-FDA-approved substitutes. He was federally excluded in June 2015. Banned from Medicare. Permanently. 2016-2023, he billed $59.6 million more!