The Department of Government Efficiency’s release of years of anonymous, open-source Medicaid data was hailed by former DOGE chief Elon Musk as a transparency win that will make fraud "easy to find." But turning internet sleuthing into prosecutions could prove far harder for the Justice Department— and legally messy.Prosecutors and privacy experts warn the leap from anonymous tips to a courtroom case runs through three choke points: patient privacy, proof standards and the uneven quality of state-reported Medicaid data.The DOGE data will include aggregate-level information about providers, cla...

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