Top Republican lawmakers are concerned that the federal government hasn’t done enough to fight Medicare fraud, the leading method of fraud in the federal government.
Leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee wrote the letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, pointing out that 12 cents of every Medicare dollar was misspent last year. Total fraud payments were $43 billion.
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