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Medicare Making Improper Payments to Prisoners
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently exposed vulnerabilities that end up costing taxpayers hundreds of billions in wasteful spending due to erroneous and sloppy billing, and outright fraud. The OIG’s October 7, 2016 report documented that even though The Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization […]
Nothing to See Here. Move Along.
Yesterday, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) finally received an answer from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics regarding an ethics complaint that we, and nine other signatories, submitted to them more than a year ago. The complaint, submitted on June 25, 2015, requested that the Senate Select Committee on Ethics investigate the senators and/or […]
Deep Sixing Taxpayer Dollars with Miners’ Pension Bailout?
So this is Sen. Manchin’s (D-West Virginia) solution to the demise of the coal mining industry? Let’s review: This administration, run by one of Manchin’s own party and enthusiasctially supported by other prominent Democrats like VP Joe Biden and presidential hopeful and former NY Senator Hillary Clinton, attacked and killed a whole industry with complete disregard […]
The Taxpayers Before Insurers Act
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has written before about problems with the risk insurance sharing programs found in the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Under Obamacare, the risk-sharing programs, often called “the three Rs,” are risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors. Because of Obamacare’s restrictive mandates and regulations, plus the uncertainty of who […]
‘Obamacare Premiums are Lower than You Think’ … NOT!
On July 21, the Health Affairs blog published a study by the Brookings Institute, entitled, “Obamacare Premiums Are Lower Than You Think.” The study starts off stating, “Since the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplaces first took effect in 2014, news story after story has focused on premium increases for certain plans, in certain […]
Home healthcare is one of the most corrupt segments of Medicare fraud
Home healthcare is one of the most corrupt segments of Medicare fraud. Governmentwide, the FY 2015 improper payment number is a staggering $137 billion annually, up from $xxx billion in FY 2014. Medicare in general is riddled with improper payments, and fraud is a sub-section of that phenomenon. $43 billion in losses last year alone […]
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Home healthcare is one of the most corrupt segments of Medicare fraud. Governmentwide, the FY 2015 improper payment number is a staggering $137 billion annually, up from $xxx billion in FY 2014. Medicare in general is riddled with improper payments, and fraud is a sub-section of that phenomenon. $43 billion in losses last year alone […]
Can You Repeat That … Please?
Today’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the National Park Service (NPS) included testimony by Director Jonathan Jarvis and Department of the Interior Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall. The purpose of the hearing was to examine how the NPS handles cases of misconduct and unethical behavior and it examined serious issues such as […]
Stop Making Excuses for Obamacare
The Obamacare insurance exchanges are not functioning according to plan. At the hands of insurers and the flawed six-year-old act, patients, taxpayers, and businesses have been handcuffed into paying increasingly high premiums, are facing less consumer choice in coverage, and Americans are quickly finding health care to be just what the Obama administration has fought […]