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On the recordMarch 28, 2011
What we are trying to do is to improve our ability, when fraud occurs or when we just make overpayments, mistakes, to be able to go out and recover--after the fact, recover the money from those that have been overpaid or who have defrauded money from the Medicare trust fund.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses efforts to recover funds lost to Medicare fraud.

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