{"id":2071,"date":"2008-09-26T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2008-09-26T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:30:13","slug":"ethical_lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of my colleagues and I were speculating today about the news that an unnamed Department of Human Services employee is under investigation for embezzling $1 million in Medicaid funds<\/a>. We kept asking each other how this person managed to siphon away that much money without anyone noticing. My guess is that this person established a dummy medical provider and submitted false claims to the state. I can’t think of any other way one could get around the Department’s internal financial controls. The details will emerge soon enough and we’ll have to take a few licks in the media about not doing enough to prevent fraud and abuse, along with assorted cracks about government workers. It’s dismaying news and a distraction from all the good work DHS does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several of my colleagues and I were speculating today about the news that an unnamed Department of Human Services employee is under investigation for embezzling $1 million in Medicaid funds. We kept asking each other how this person managed to siphon away that much money without anyone noticing. My guess is that this person established […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}