Jul 2 2013
Center For Public Integrity: Medicare Fraud Outrunning Enforcement Efforts
Citing massive budget and staff cuts, federal officials are set to scale back or drop a host of investigations into Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse - even though cracking down on government waste and cutting health care costs have been top priorities for the Obama administration (Schulte, 7/1).
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This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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