Gov Info Security: "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is the first agency to use a new fraud mapping tool that ultimately will be used throughout the federal government. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which monitors distribution of federal funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, developed the program, which it has been using to guard against improper stimulus payments. … Medicare and Medicaid combined had about $65 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2009, [OMB Director Peter] Orszag noted. President Obama has set a goal of cutting the improper payment rate for Medicare in half by 2012" (Anderson, 6/23).
Meanwhile, several news outlets report on recent fraud investigations.