Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Errors

In a recent LA Times op-ed, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deputy Administrator Kimberly Brandt...

The Senate is reportedly exploring options to reduce Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse as they consider changes to the House-passed One Big Beautiful...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it was expanding its efforts to audit Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ risk...

Note: This is an update of our Tax Gap Primer using the latest available data from the IRS. One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers...

Improper payments made by the federal government totaled $236 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, according to testimony from the Government...

The pandemic-era Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC) was designed to help businesses retain workers during the pandemic. But after low initial uptake...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released a new analysis of the “ tax gap” – the difference between taxes owed to the federal government...

Although politicians often speak of wanting to target “waste, fraud, and abuse” in government programs, there is currently an effort to prevent the...

One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers to raise revenue would be to close some portion of the “tax gap," or the difference between...

Congress recently passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to improve efforts to identify and reduce improper payments across...