Feds Showcase New Medicare Anti-Fraud Command Center
The Associated Press: Medicare Fraud Busters Unveil Command Center
Federal fraud busters invited the news media to visit their new $3.6 million command center and watch staffers explain how they'll jump on unfolding Medicare scams. While the action on the tour Tuesday wasn't real, the problem is — more than $60 billion a year is lost to fraud. And two Republican senators immediately questioned whether the new multimillion-dollar facility is just throwing more money away (Kennedy and Alonso-Zaldivar, 8/1).