News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 15, 2011
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Contact: CMS Press Office (202) 690-6145
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We Can’t Wait: Agencies Cut Nearly $18 Billion in Improper Payments, Announce New Steps for Stopping Government Waste
CMS Announces New Demonstrations to Help Curb Improper Medicare, Medicaid Payments The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today announced that the Administration cut wasteful improper payments by $17.6 billion dollars in 2011 as part of the Obama Administration’s Campaign to Cut Waste, fueled by decreases in payment errors in Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, and Food Stamps. Combined with the avoided improper payments in 2010, agencies have avoided making over $20 billion in improper payments in the two years since President Obama issued an Executive Order initiating an aggressive campaign against the wasteful payment errors. To help cut improper payments, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will launch demonstration programs beginning in January 2012 targeting some of the most common factors that lead to improper payments. The demonstration programs will help strengthen Medicare by aiming at eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. To see the OMB press release, please visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/15/we-can-t-wait-agencies-cut-nearly-18-billion-improper-payments-announce- To learn more about CMS efforts to cut improper payments, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/apps/media/press/factsheet.asp?Counter=4176
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Last revised: November 15, 2011
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