I believe it is critically important that we do everything in our power to eliminate Medicare waste.
I guess maybe the first lesson learned here is Congress is not particularly good or efficient at price fixing.
No, there is a plethora of data out there. You have the Internet now. This is easy to do, to actually figure out what is...
I appreciate the numbers that you were throwing out, $27.5 billion saved estimated over the next 10 years, but that is $...
It would not be a valid argument, for example, to argue that Congress should ignore allegations that the Internal Revenu...
Thank you, Chairman.
Again, that is going to be, I am afraid, another government program that may not be particularly efficient in terms of h...
What we are looking at right now in terms of the health care law is when it was originally passed, it was going to cost ...
But, again, it is not speaking to the benefit of utilizing more of a private sector model, where individuals have more s...
53 percent that were termed 'improper' or where there was--I am not exactly sure what this represents, but 53 percent by...
Then who determines that, in 2011, for example, that 61 percent of the $9.7 billion that was paid by the MACs, who deter...
First of all, we certainly agree that any level of improper payment is not acceptable, and certainly a two-thirds rate o...
As long as we are talking about different types of certification, do you have the statistics on how many suppliers there...
Senator Johnson mentioned. In this scheme, a supplier number is established for a DME supplier that does not exist.
I think what we really need to do is work together and work with CMS to get the answer to your question in terms of what...
We want an effective and efficient government, and the trick is--I come from the private sector, and we were talking abo...
The current budget window is about $1.7 trillion. And when it really kicks in 2016, it will cost about $2.4 trillion ove...
Is that 100 percent of CMS claims paid through the MAC?
