Health Care Fraud: Types of Providers Involved in Medicare Cases, and CMS Efforts to Reduce Fraud

November 28, 2012
On November 28, 2012, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released testimony by Kathleen M. King, GAO Director, Health Care, before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives on health care fraud in Medicare. Her testimony focused on the types of providers that have been investigated for fraud, the outcomes of those investigations, and strategies that could be used to combat Medicare fraud.
Data from 2010 shows that about one-quarter of the 7,848 subjects investigated in criminal health care fraud cases were medical facilities or were affiliated with these facilities. Additionally . . .