#12 HotspotTX
Houston, TX
Flagged Providers
10
Suspicious Spending
$1.76B
Avg per Provider
$175.7M
National Rank
#12 of 32
Fraud Pattern Analysis
Houston, TX ranks #12 among the 32 cities with the highest concentration of flagged Medicaid providers in the OpenMedicaid dataset. With 10 flagged providers billing a combined $1.76B in suspicious Medicaid charges, this city is near the national city average of 13 flagged providers. The average suspicious spending per flagged provider ($175.7M) is notably high, which may indicate large-scale billing schemes rather than isolated incidents.