The $10 billion babysitter: How Medicaid turned autism therapy into a free-for-all

The scale of Minnesota’s welfare fraud has stunned American taxpayers. “The largest Medicaid autism fraud case ever,” as put by the Justice Department, was among the schemes uncovered. The perpetrators built a yearslong operation that netted $46.6 million by exploiting autism therapy known as applied behavior analysis. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently…