tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 7

You Could Soon Face a Turbo-Charged OIG

With new Medicare legislation stepping up the number of providers and contractors - and potential fraud - where is the matching increase for the HHS Office of Inspector General?That's just what Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) wants to know in a Feb. 6 letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson. In a showing of "strong support" for similar requests from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Stark nixed the present budget, which contained no increase in money for fraud and abuse enforcement and decreased the staff for the agency.The money should come from the $1...

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