A North Carolina official recently highlighted possible fraud within his state’s Medicaid program surrounding autism treatments.

State Auditor Dave Boliek said there was a suspicious 47,000 percent rise in autism therapy billings that officials are investigating, Fox News reported Saturday.

Boliek told Fox:

Those are vital services to folks and individuals that need that therapy. But when you have, like in North Carolina, a system that went from $1.4 million or so in total billings for autism therapy to more than $660 million a year in billings on autism therapy within a five-year range, that begs an audit from the state auditor, who in North…

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