In August, the GAO submitted a report to Congress that focused on what CMS would need in order to better target risks and improve Medicaid oversight. The review determined that one of the critical problems the agency is facing is

In 2017, improper payments within the Medicaid program reached a total of $37 billion, according to CMS. That equals 10 percent of the federal dollars spent on the program. Moreover, 99.2 percent of the payments made were overpayments. To make

The GAO reported this week that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must create a much more robust risk-based anti-fraud strategy for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Improper payments within both programs amounted to about $95 billion in fiscal

For the fourth straight year, the federal government increased the amount of money described as improper payments. The Government Accountability Office is reporting that agencies exceeded $144 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2016, up from $137 billion in 2015.

A GAO report uncovered data that the government accumulated more than $124 billion in improper payments in 2014, $19 billion more than the year before. The Oct. 1 report uncovered that the outpouring in payments came almost entirely from Medicare and