Federal officials may be missing massive Medicare Part D fraud

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Massive fraud in Medicare‘s prescription drug programs may be going untracked, according to a government watchdog.

“Because the” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid “does not have data on potential fraud and abuse for more than half of Part D plans, it cannot assess the efficacy throughout the Part D program of sponsors’ efforts to control fraud and abuse,” said the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services.

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