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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2001. LC Number: KF26.5 .A3 2001c OCLC Number: ocm48785343 Subject: Medicare fraud. Excerpt: ... 11 guess he was Acting Attorney General - of the Fraud and Abuse Tax Force in the first Bush Administration when I was at OMB. And I would say that we were starting to ramp up on our fraud and abuse efforts at that time and maybe, arguably, could have done more, but I think some of the things that happened in the last 7 or 8 years were probably positive. When I left the Government in 1993, Medicare inflation was running about 15 percent, and Medicaid was running about 18 percent, and there was clearly a lot of stuff going on in the program that should not have gone on. On the other hand, I would argue, over the last 8 years, you could argue that the pendulum may have swung a little too far, and we need to get it back in balance, and I think this issue is real-ly all about balance. I have very little desire to preside over double-digit Medicare or Medicaid inflation again, but Medicare inflation went from 15 percent in 1993 to negative 1 percent in 1999. There were a lot of things involved in that, including the 1997 BBA, but part of it was fraud enforcement, and there is no question that that had a behavioral impact on everybody in the system. It has also scared people to death. I personally believe that most providers are very good people, but there are a lot of people out there who are doing the wrong thing; and trying to find the balance is, I think, the appropriate question here. While I was out of the Government, I was chairman of the com-pliance committees of two large corporations, and I can tell you that in one, we spent $ 25 million putting together a compliance plan, and in the other one, $ 30 million. I had a good reaction with the Federal Government from that. I came in and met with Mac Thornton and other people in the IG's office, and they gave us a lot of guida
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