In Fall 2014, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) submitted a semi-annual report to Congress evaluating the effectiveness of the OIG’s effort to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in more than one hundred Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs.
In late March 2015, a group of US Senators, having received motivation from the US House of Representatives, restored the introduction of the PRIME Act, which looks to amend the Social Security Act and harden securities against Medicare and Medi-Cal fraud and abuse and raise fraud detection measures across the board and could prove to be a double-edged sword for the healthcare industry.
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