Apparently the patient is a teenage boy with hemophilia. I'm fairly confident that it isn't a scam.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/01/io...

Hemophilia Federation of America: "A million dollars per month is something we've never heard of," sure makes it sound like a scam, maybe by hospital?

Given that the insurance companies know exactly who the patient is, exactly what treatments he is receiving, and exactly when and where they are happening it seems like it would be pretty easy to uncover a scam if there was one. And they have a lot of incentive to do so!

Would you consider $1 mil/month a good incentive to scam?

Well, that's coming from the insurer, so I'm sure they're not exaggerating (/s)...

> Iowa’s largest health insurer, Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield, has cited the case as an extreme example of exploding health care costs.