Fraud efforts recover $3.3B
By HME News Staff
Updated Fri March 20, 2015
WASHINGTON - The government's healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered $3.3 billion in taxpayer dollars in fiscal year 2014, the Justice and Health and Human Services departments announced March 19. For every dollar spent on health care-related fraud and abuse investigations in the last three years, the government has recovered $7.70—the third highest return on investment since the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program was established in 1997, according to the agencies. In all, more than $27.8 billion has been returned to the Medicare Trust Fund over the life of the program, they say.
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