How to report what you find
FraudFinder does not file on your behalf. It gets your work into a shape the people with subpoena power can act on, and points you at the right door.
Before you file
- Be specific: provider name, NPI, address, dates, and what you personally verified.
- Keep your evidence: photos, screenshots with timestamps, public filings, site visits.
- Separate fact from inference. Say what you saw, then what you suspect.
- Never trespass, impersonate anyone, or touch patient records.
- If you may want a whistleblower award, speak to a lawyer before publishing — public disclosure can affect a qui tam claim.
Official channels
The primary federal channel for suspected fraud against Medicare and Medicaid. Accepts online complaints, phone reports (1-800-HHS-TIPS) and mail. Best first stop for a documented hospice or home-health lead.
For enrollment and provider-integrity concerns — for example a provider enrolled at an address that plainly cannot host the operation described.
Every state has an MFCU that prosecutes Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse. Use this when the conduct touches state Medicaid dollars or patient harm.
Useful where licensing, elder abuse or consumer-protection law is involved alongside billing.
If you have specific, non-public evidence of false billing you may be able to bring a qui tam action and share in any recovery. These cases must be filed under seal by a lawyer — talk to a False Claims Act attorney before publishing anything.
If you claimed the lead here
The Investigator Agreement asks you to tell us when you file and what comes of it. Add the filing date and the outcome on your investigation page. Any whistleblower award is yours alone — FraudFinder takes no share.
Nothing here is legal advice. FraudFinder flags patterns in public data; deciding what to report, and how, is yours. If you want to help, donations pay for the weekly data pulls, the map address lookups and hosting — investigators never pay a fee.