I believe that the Federal Government has an obligation to work with States to identify what works for a particular facility rather than imp...
I also understand that there is still considerable debate over inherently safer technologies.
I think your idea of asking GAO to come back to us in about 6 months is a good one.
We know we have these huge budget deficits. We know the Medicare trust fund is running out of money.
What more should we be doing, Ms. King?
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...
OK. Thank you.
The larger the database, the greater the potential for identifying fraud.
I think IRS has a similar kind of approach where we recover monies that have been, frankly, recovered because of tax evasion.
If we want to recover these monies, in some cases prevent the fraud from occurring but recover monies that have been defrauded.
Let me come back to, I think, Ms. King and also Mr. Blum on the next question.
The next step is to go out and recover the money that has been improperly paid if there is a recovery to be had.
Dedicated those errors or dedicated the resources? You said 'dedicated those errors,' but you mean dedicated resources.
It is not enough to be good. You have to be great and continue to get better.
Every now and then I ask witnesses--as we try to drill down and find out where we can save some money, I ask the witnesses to just say what ...
Thanks, Dr. Jensen.
Let me just interrupt you if I can. I mentioned earlier the program that we are running, initially in three States, with the recovery audit ...
Somebody else? Dr. Jensen.
