WASHINGTON — Launched last summer, a $77 million computer system to stop Medicare fraud before it happens had prevented just one suspicious payment by Christmas. That saved taxpayers exactly $7,591.
Hoping for much better results, a disappointed Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., says, “I wondered, did they leave out some zeros?”
Lawmakers had expected the system to finally allow Medicare to stanch a $60 billion-a-year fraud hemorrhage. Now they’re worried about its future performance.
Medicare officials say it’s unfair to grade the new technology on a single statistic.
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