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Both the Trump administration and Congress are offering new goals to cut government improper payments over the next five to 10 years. Experts in the field say the targets aren't impossible but need attention and investments in agency technology and personnel.
Non-existent sweepstakes, phony lotteries, reverse mortgage schemes and counterfeit drugs — fraudsters have unlimited imagination when if comes to separating people from their money, especially retirees and the elderly. Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning, offers some advice on avoiding ripoffs on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Imagine cheating taxpayers out of millions and millions of dollars, and at the same time, deliberately misdiagnosing hundreds of patients just for the purpose of stealing. Unfortunately such people are out there. But there's one less now, thanks to the efforts of Bryan Drake. Drake is a special agent on the FBI Doctor Fata investigative team and a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss his process.
Ethical people don't need a code of ethics, while crooks and cheaters don't care whether you have one.
Federal Medicaid dollars are spent by the states. The Health and Human Services Department requires states to have Medicaid Fraud Control Units that hunt for theft or patient abuse. And they do get results. Richard Stern is the director of the Division of Medicaid Fraud Policy and Oversight in the HHS inspector general's office. He talked with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about their accomplishments in 2016.
The Justice Department's fraud section has added staff and caseload in the last year. Attorney Kevin Muhlendorf of Wiley Rein joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with analysis of the latest fraud section year in review.
Rigging the election, or the possibility of it, is on the collective mind of the Obama administration, but on a different vector than that of Donald Trump.
Fraudulent providers to Medicare and Medicaid make up only a small percentage of all providers. But they account for an outsized percentage of misspent dollars. One way to cut improper payments is to keep such providers out of the system in the first place with stronger enrollment controls. Seto Bagdoyan, director of forensic audits and investigative services at the Government Accountability Office, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the latest look at this problem.
It's also the sort of case illustrating how data analysis can prove a hunch or turn something up altogether new.
Bob Dittmer, deputy tax commissioner of the Indiana Department of Revenue, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the state is licking the problem of fraudulently obtained refunds.
Amid the last-minute maneuvering to pass the 2016 omnibus bill and avert a government shutdown, the Senate last week passed two bills that address government waste.
The crooks are always one step ahead of us. Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey provides tips so that no one robs the Social Security Administration piggy bank.
Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) will introduce the Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act of 2015 Monday. Under the bill, attorneys would have authority to prosecute representatives and caretakers who steal funds from retirees.
The Justice Department announced Friday that Hewlett-Packard Co. will pay $32.5 million due to allegations of overcharging the U.S. Postal Service.