Medicaid Fraud Detection Program Comes Up Short

According to a Government Accountability Office investigation, the federal program tasked with detecting Medicaid fraud costs more to operate than it has recovered in overpayments.

Since 2008, the Medicaid audit program has cost $102 million to operate and only identified $7.4 million million in overpayments. The report characterized close to two-thirds of the 1,550 audits of state records as "unproductive."

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