Medicare scammers steal $60 billion a year. This man is hunting them

Fraudsters aren't necessarily the biggest billers—it's a bit of a myth that fraud lives at the end of a bell curve. But they do have some distinctive ways of doing business, if you know what to look for. John Mininno realized he could build a business around using data to find certain patterns, identify likely informants (usually former employees), and turn them into false-claims plaintiffs. He didn't have to wait for whistle-blowers to walk through his door. He could use analytics to troll for sketchy providers and insiders, transforming that rare, long-odds game into a quantitative, target-rich discovery process with gumshoe work on the back end.