
The next step is to go out and recover the money that has been improperly paid if there is a recovery to be had.
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The next step is to go out and recover the money that has been improperly paid if there is a recovery to be had.

Let me come back to, I think, Ms. King and also Mr. Blum on the next question.

If we want to recover these monies, in some cases prevent the fraud from occurring but recover monies that have been defrauded.

I think IRS has a similar kind of approach where we recover monies that have been, frankly, recovered because of tax evasion.

The larger the database, the greater the potential for identifying fraud.

I think there are some very important provisions pending now in health reform that will give CMS more tools to oversee and to strengthen the Part D program.

We know we have these huge budget deficits. We know the Medicare trust fund is running out of money.

I think your idea of asking GAO to come back to us in about 6 months is a good one.

We are talking about billions of dollars we are trying to capture.

One of the ideas is to allow the employees who stop smoking, lose weight, control their cholesterol, control their blood pressure to actually receive premium discounts for up to 30 percent if they do the right thing for themselves and for…

I think those resources can be brought to bear here, and it is almost an incentive system.

What do you need in terms of change in attitude, change in direction, change in regulation, change in legislation?

It is not enough to be good. You have to be great and continue to get better.

But, we could say, well, we are getting $600 million, $700 million, that is a pretty good way to measure success.

I think we are really still at the starting gate.