Jetson Leder-Luis
Jetson Leder-Luis is an American economist and professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business. His academic research addresses fraud in US federal spending.[1][2][3] He currently serves as the Senior Advisor for Healthcare Fraud at the United States Department of Health and Human Services,[4][5] and is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[6][7]
Academic career
Leder-Luis received his bachelors in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Economics from the California Institute of Technology in 2014 as a Stamps Scholar.[8] He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020.[9] In 2020, he was awarded the Annual Dissertation Award by the American Society of Hispanic Economics.[10]
Leder-Luis has been an Assistant Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business since 2020.[11]
Research
Leder-Luis's research focuses on fraud in public programs, especially Medicare. His work on the False Claims Act and whistleblowers demonstrates that whistleblowing produces substantial deterrence effects and has a high return-on-investment.[12] This work has been cited in policy discussions about whistleblowing as an anti-fraud tool at the state and federal level.[13][14][15] Leder-Luis has also shown that fraud prevention produces greater savings than ex-post solutions such as suing those who commit fraud.[16] This work has motivated improved anti-fraud detection and AI implementation in federal programs.[17][18][19]
In 2025, Leder-Luis published a study[20] on hospice fraud with Jon Gruber which showed that inappropriately long hospice stays save Medicare money, contributing to substantial policy debate over expanding the Medicare hospice program.[21][22][23]
Leder-Luis has also written about fraud in infrastructure spending,[24][25] development aid,[26] and education spending.[27]
References
- ↑ Wallace-Wells, Benjamin (2025-06-16). "What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ McKenzie, Patrick (2024-10-24). "Picking Uncle Sam's pockets, with Jetson Leder-Luis". Complex Systems. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "How to Catch the Fraudsters Bilking Medicare for Billions". Bloomberg. 2024-11-18. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "HHS names new Senior Advisor for Healthcare Fraud | OrangeSlices AI". 2025-07-24. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Jetson Leder-Luis Named Senior Advisor for Healthcare Fraud at U.S. Department of HHS". Insights@Questrom. 2025-09-18. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "NBER Appoints 27 Research Associates, 47 Faculty Research Fellows". NBER. 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Jetson Leder-Luis". NBER. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Jetson Leder-Luis, California Institute of Technology '14 - Stamps Foundation - Stamps Foundation Blog". Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Leder-Luis, Jetson (2020). The economics of fraud and corruption (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- ↑ Lab, Pfister (2020-12-07). "2020 Dissertation Awardee". American Society of Hispanic Economists. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Jetson Leder-Luis". Boston University Questrom. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Leder-Luis, Jetson (2025-09-11). "Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare". Review of Economics and Statistics. 107 (5): 1169–1186. doi:10.1162/rest_a_01339. ISSN 0034-6535. PMC 12455498 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 40995601 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Soltan, Liz (2025-10-30). "New Economic Study: Healthcare Whistleblowers Save Government 10x Settlement Amounts". Whistleblower Partners LLP. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "States prepare as fraudsters get set to pounce on infrastructure law windfalls | Analysis". Pennsylvania Capital-Star. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Improper Payments and Government Waste Topic of State Government Committee Hearing". pahousegop.com. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Eliason, Paul; League, Riley; Leder-Luis, Jetson; McDevitt, Ryan C.; Roberts, James W. (May 2025). "Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health-Care Fraud". Journal of Political Economy. 133 (5): 1661–1702. doi:10.1086/734134. ISSN 0022-3808. PMC 12331087 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 40785805 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ O'Donnell, James. "Can AI help DOGE slash government budgets? It's complex". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "A new idea to help DOGE meet its fraud reduction goals". Federal News Network. 2025-05-06. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Sheffey, Ayelet. "The door is open for Musk's DOGE to achieve a quick win: Slashing billions of dollars in fraud in federal programs like Medicare". Business Insider. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Gruber, Jonathan; Howard, David H.; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Caputi, Theodore L. (2025-01-01). "Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care". American Economic Review. 115 (1): 263–294. doi:10.1257/aer.20230328. ISSN 0002-8282.
- ↑ "NPHI Responds to MIT Study: Advocates for High-Quality, Compassionate Hospice Care Over Profit-Driven Models". National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation. 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Vossel, Holly (2024-11-04). "Longer Hospice Stays Among Dementia Patients Save Medicare Dollars". Hospice News. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Study: Hospice care provides major Medicare savings". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Leder-Luis, Jetson (2021-09-28). "5% of the trillions of dollars lawmakers want to spend on infrastructure could be lost to fraud". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Freeman, James (2023-01-04). "Opinion | Not Mitch McConnell's Finest Hour". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ "Tracing the Path of Corruption". Caltech Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Shany, Adi (2019-12-01). "Maimonides Rule Redux". American Economic Review: Insights. 1 (3): 309–324. doi:10.1257/aeri.20180120. ISSN 2640-205X.
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