The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in 2024 that Medicaid’s improper payment rate over the previous three years was less than 5.1%. A health policy analyst who worked for the White ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan congressional agency, published two reports in 2024 that found, generally speaking, improper payments made by the U.S. government since fiscal ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new report by the ...

A new GAO report released last week (“Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2022 Estimates and Opportunities for Improvement”) made brief headlines for finding that, during fiscal year 2022, federal agencies ...

The improper payment rate for fiscal year 2024 was 3.97%. The last time that number dipped below 4% was in 2013. The Biden White House is touting reductions in agencies’ improper payments, as the ...

Traditional Medicare paid out an estimated $31.2 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2023, according to new data from the federal government. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

The payment integrity arm of the Treasury Department says that new AI-powered tools are helping it spot fraudsters and bad actors before they access government money. Treasury prevented and recovered ...

Improper payments, which put taxpayer dollars at risk, have been a long-term issue for the federal government, but they declined over the past year. However, there is more than meets the eye on this, ...

A new report finds that the federal government made nearly $236 billion in improper payments across entitlement programs last year, with Medicare and Medicaid a large source of payment errors. The ...

The world’s richest man is poised to go after the country’s most impoverished citizens under the false pretense of cracking down on fraud. Last week, Elon Musk’s America PAC tweeted a ...

We all make mistakes, but most of us don’t make mistakes with billions of dollars of someone else’s money. We can easily forgive the drive-thru worker who fails to “hold the pickles,” but it’s tougher ...