Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Errors

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced five bills this week to close tax loopholes, improve tax...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a Medicaid rule, last week, which closes an especially egregious loophole that allowed...

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...

Update: The offset options below were estimated prior to enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and have not been updated. Some options...

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...