Medicare’s Fraud-Busting Computer Has Slow Start
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Inside Washington: Slow Start For Medicare's New Fraud-Busting Computer Disappoints Lawmakers
Launched last summer, a $77 million computer system to stop Medicare fraud before it happens had prevented just one suspicious payment by Christmas. That saved taxpayers exactly $7,591. Hoping for much better results, a disappointed Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., says, "I wondered, did they leave out some zeros?" (2/23).