A U.S. government agency found that $2.7 trillion worth of Medicare and Medicaid payments were improperly sent overseas. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan congressional agency, ...

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 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) ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The House Budget Committee last week voted to pass a bipartisan proposal from Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Blake Moore, R-Utah, ...

A Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “We Welcome SNAP Benefits” sign unveiled on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (USDA photo) The Agriculture Department is one of 16 federal departments and agencies ...

Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people ...

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 ...

Since 2004, twenty large federal agencies have admitted to disbursing an astonishing $2.25 trillion in improper payments. Last year, these improper payments totaled $175 billion – that’s about $15 ...

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