The Trump administration and 119th Congress are preparing to reduce federal expenditures by targeting Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse. Medicare enrollment revocations, Medicaid ...
Kim Brandt, CMS’s chief operating officer and deputy administrator, said AI tools are helping the agency stop money from going out the door to fraudsters.
Weaponizing fraud and using it as a pretext to take funds away from states will destabilize their programs and ultimately take health care from people who can least afford it.
CMS is gathering information for and seeking industry feedback on a project that would consolidate the audit and investigation services for Medicare and Medicaid integrity functions, creating new ...
The buck stops here. We’ve got to clean up the system. With these words, Dr. Mehmet Oz, now at the helm of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), signaled a pivotal moment for Medicaid ...
At HIMSS26, leaders from the agency's Fraud Defense Operations Center discussed how the initiative is helping detect fraud in real time.
A constant refrain from the Trump administration about rooting out fraud, waste and abuse isn’t just about budget cuts. For nursing homes, it may signal increasing audit risk and a rise in burdensome ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Wednesday singled out personal care and home- and community-based services (HCBS) in announcing ...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the federal Medicaid chief, is entirely right to probe New York’s bloated $124 billion spending on the program ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services alleges the Indianapolis-based health insurer has failed to properly submit required information to federal regulators since 2018.
In post-acute care, Medicare is not an abstract federal program. It is Mrs. Thompson’s therapy after a hip fracture. It is Mr. Alvarez’s swallow ...