"Senator Coburn and I worked on changes to the Improper Payments Act."
"I don't believe they are allowed to keep a portion of the recoveries to pay for their recovery activities."
"I think one of the things we did in Sarbanes-Oxley is literally the CEO of the company, when a company verifies or certifies that they have scrubbed their books, they have done the right thing. The CE..."
"If we change our audit plan and look at the most vulnerable but also the most problematic, we are going to end up eating that on the State budget side."
"We need to find ways to have them actually come forward and tell us they found a problem."
"If we amend our law so that it allows some portion of the recoveries to be used to strengthen those kinds of systems, does that make sense?"
"What can we do at the Congressional level, this Subcommittee, this Committee, the Senate, the House, to address some of those vulnerabilities?"
"the demonstration project has been seen by many, including by me, as a real success"
"I think the key for us in looking at these contractors is--I have difficulties with the bounty issue once again"
"I am especially interested to see if the first State that ratified the Constitution, might be on that list."
"I think there is a real opportunity here for us and for the IG and CMS to say, here is what a compliance program looks like at a managed care entity."
"We are going to run out of money in the Medicare Trust Fund."