Check our work

Everything on this site comes from published government files, and every number carries the receipt of exactly where it came from. You should never have to take our word for anything. This page shows how to check a lead yourself, what we check before anything is published, and where we fall short.

Every number traces to a file

Open any provider page and the trail is built in. Each flag card opens to show the exact records behind it — the owner's name, the counts, the dollar amounts — each one linked. Click through and you land on the actual government row, laid out line by line, with Open the raw file at the bottom for the original on the government's own site.

Below the flags, Where every detail came from lists every value on the page with the file it was read from, the date the publisher says it is current to, the day we downloaded it, and the weekly version it belongs to. The files are re-pulled every Monday and each pull is kept as its own version — see what changed any week.

How to check a lead yourself

1. Open a lead from the board and read why it was flagged.
2. Click the flag card. The records behind it are listed with links — an owner's enrollment row, a payment line, an exclusion-list entry.
3. Follow the link. You get the government's own record, pre-filtered to the exact row, not a summary of it.
4. Still not satisfied? Use Open the raw file to load the government's data feed directly and search it yourself.
5. Names coincide. Owners change. Nothing on this site is a finding — it is a starting point for checking, which is yours to do.

What we check before anything is published

• Every flag and every detail is checked against the file it came from. Anything with no source, an out-of-date pull, or a dead record link is logged, and a lead whose flags cannot be traced at all is held back from the board.
• After every weekly pull, dollar amounts quoted in flags are re-checked against the payment rows they were read from, exclusion-list matches are re-verified against the current list, and a random sample of stored records is re-fetched from the government's own files to catch quiet corrections.
• Each file download is logged with its status, row count and duration. A failed pull, an empty file, a sudden row drop, or a changed column layout opens a problem alert shown on the data sources page.
• One safeguard: if a bad pull would hold back more than a quarter of the board, nothing is hidden — a single site-wide alert is raised instead, because that points at a broken pull, not at individual leads.

Where we fall short

• Only the 2024 payment file exists so far, so there are no trend flags yet.
• Some map pins are placed at the centre of a ZIP code rather than the exact address, and say so.
• County-level figures warn when the sample is small, because percentages swing wildly.
• Name matches on the exclusion list can coincide — every one of them needs a person to confirm the identity before it means anything.

Disagree with something?

If a record looks wrong, a link is dead, or a flag has an explanation we have missed, tell us. Corrections get looked at and the data gets fixed in the next pull.