Pillar · MFCU · State Attorney General
MFCU - Phantom Employee Detection
Pre-settlement attestation for state Medicaid provider workforce integrity. JIL detects providers billing Medicaid for services attributed to workers who do not exist, are not authorized to work, are not credentialed, are deceased, are on the OIG exclusion list, or did not in fact deliver the service at the time and place claimed.
Built for the 53 State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and their parent Attorney General offices. Output is sealed at the moment of detection and packaged as a Court Ready Evidence Bundle (CREB) admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 902(13) as self-authenticating, without custodian testimony.
The fraud landscape
The single most-prosecuted Medicaid provider category in the United States.
Personal care service attendant fraud, home health worker fraud, behavioral-health workforce fraud, and adult day care staffing fraud now dominate MFCU case dockets. The common thread across these schemes is the same: providers bill for labor that cannot be tied to a real, authorized, credentialed, living worker at the time and place of service.
Total annual exposure across all 53 MFCU jurisdictions is conservatively estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. The category is under-detected because the data needed to verify worker identity, work authorization, credential status, exclusion status, mortality, and service delivery lives across federal and state systems that do not natively talk to one another.
Phantom Employee Detection closes that gap by attesting every billed encounter against the federal and state systems of record, deterministically, before settlement.
Five typologies
Detection grouped by fraud archetype, not by claim code.
Identity
Synthetic identities, stolen SSNs, mismatched name/SSN pairs, identity reuse across providers, identities that match deceased individuals in the SSA Death Master File.
Eligibility
Workers without lawful work authorization (E-Verify and SAVE checks), workers on the OIG List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE), workers without the credential required for the service billed.
Service Delivery
Worker physically not present at the place and time of service, multi-county and multi-state simultaneity, geofence and electronic visit verification (EVV) mismatches, impossible-shift overlap.
Cost Report
Workforce headcount and hours reported on state Medicaid cost reports inconsistent with state UI/wage filings, Form W-2 totals, or 1099 issuance. Phantom payroll appearing only in claims data.
Cross-Entity
The same worker billed by multiple Medicaid-enrolled providers in patterns inconsistent with lawful dual employment. Shell employers, paper staffing agencies, and round-tripped payroll through related parties.
Source-of-truth integrations
Attestation against the federal and state systems of record.
| System | Operator | What it verifies |
|---|---|---|
| E-Verify | USCIS / SSA / DHS | Work authorization for new and existing hires; Form I-9 employment eligibility. |
| SAVE | USCIS | Immigration status verification for non-citizens; provider-of-service eligibility. |
| NPPES | CMS | National Provider Identifier registry; credential, taxonomy, and enrollment status. |
| OIG LEIE | HHS Office of Inspector General | List of Excluded Individuals and Entities; federal-program participation bar. |
| SSA Death Master File | Social Security Administration via NTIS | Mortality verification; flags claims attributed to deceased workers. |
| State UI / wage filings | State workforce agencies | Quarterly wage reports cross-walked to Medicaid cost-report headcount and hours. |
| EVV systems | State Medicaid agencies and vendors | Electronic visit verification geofence and timestamp data for home and community based services. |
All Phantom Employee findings cite the underlying source-of-truth response with a deterministic hash and timestamp. The verdict is rule-driven and reproducible. AI accelerates clustering, narrative drafting, and reviewer workflow; AI does not determine the outcome.
CREB template #23
Court-ready evidence at the moment of detection.
Every detected phantom-employee finding emits a sealed Court Ready Evidence Bundle (CREB) on the Phantom-Employee template. The bundle is structured for direct admissibility under Federal Rule of Evidence 902(13) as a self-authenticating electronic record, and is engineered for prosecution under state False Claims Acts, applicable state Medicaid fraud statutes, and 18 U.S.C. Section 1347 where federal coordination is warranted.
No custodian testimony is required to authenticate the record at trial. The bundle carries its own cryptographic chain of custody, hash-linked source attestations, and provenance back to the federal or state system of record consulted at the time the finding was sealed.
Deployment
From signed BAA to production in 8 to 12 weeks.
Target steady-state operational deployment per MFCU is 8 to 12 weeks from signed Business Associate Agreement to production cutover. Schedule mirrors the JIL UM Attestation deployment SLA. Pilot deployment runs against one MFCU partner first, followed by regional rollout and national availability.
JIL operates as a neutral integrity layer. JIL does not prosecute, recover, settle, interview beneficiaries, or modify state Medicaid eligibility determinations. MFCUs and their AG offices retain full prosecutorial authority and case ownership at every stage.
Engage
Brief your MFCU technical liaison.
Phantom Employee Detection is in late-stage engineering. JIL is selecting one MFCU pilot partner for the first production deployment. Reference TDD: JIL_Phantom_Employee_TDD_v0.1 available under NDA.
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