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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
2009 Fraud Detection System Still Doesn't Work
The federal government's system for detecting Medicare and Medicaid fraud is late, inadequate and underused. Those conclusions from a new Government Accountability Office report. GAO says the systems don't even include Medicaid data. So far, 639 analysts were supposed to have been trained to use the system, but only 41 have. GAO also says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lacks a plan to finish the system. CMS has spend $150 million on the fraud detection system. It went live in 2009, but remains incomplete.
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They are NOT interested in finding "fraud". Isn't that glaringly apparent?? Its the same reasoning the government used when it prohibited each state government from comparing their welfare lists with each other, because close to State lines, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people collecting welfare and other benefits in two, sometimes three or four, states. And they KNOW it. But that would cause a LOT of political/social problems. Can't have THAT.
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