PDF The government recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year–up from $1.9 billion in 2008–and says that the stepped-up antifraud measures in health reform will ensure even greater future success.
As Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder pointed out during yesterday’s news conference, the newly enacted Affordable Care Act provides an additional $300 million over the next 10 years to fight health fraud, enhances the government’s oversight of companies participating in Medicare and Medicaid and lengthens prison sentences in criminal cases.
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