Waste, Fraud, Errors, and Abuse
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It’s Time to End the Employee Retention Tax Credit
Read moreThe bipartisan Employee Retention Tax Credit Repeal Act was introduced this week by Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Joe Manchin...
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Improper Payments Cost the Government Billions
Read moreImproper payments made by the federal government totaled $236 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, according to testimony from the Government...
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Employee Retention Credit Faces 7X Cost Overrun
Read moreThe pandemic-era Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC) was designed to help businesses retain workers during the pandemic. But after low initial uptake...
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IRS Estimates a $625 Billion Tax Gap
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released a new analysis of the “ tax gap” – the difference between taxes owed to the federal government...
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Medicaid Provider Taxes Inflate Federal Matching Funds
Read moreThis paper is part of a series on Medicaid financing. Other papers in the series discuss an overview of state financing schemes and supplemental...
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Time to Fix Medicaid Financing Schemes
Read moreThis paper is part of a series on Medicaid financing. Other papers in the series discuss provider taxes and supplemental payments . Medicaid is...
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Good Management of Medicare Advantage is Not a “Cut” to Medicare
Read moreAlthough politicians often speak of wanting to target “waste, fraud, and abuse” in government programs, there is currently an effort to prevent the...
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Republican and Democratic Presidents Support Reducing the Tax Gap
Read moreOne 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...
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Equalizing Medicare Payments Regardless of Site-of-Care
Read moreCurrently, the Medicare program pays higher rates for medical services performed in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) than it pays for the same...
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Reducing Medicare Advantage Overpayments
Read moreThe Medicare Advantage (MA) program, which allows Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in federally-funded private health insurance plans, is an...
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Bill Advances to Combat Improper Payments
Read moreCongress recently passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to improve efforts to identify and reduce improper payments across...
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President's Budget Gets Serious About Cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Read moreUpdate: the tables in this post have been updated with estimates from CBO's analysis of the President's FY 2020 budget. CBO does not provide specific...