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GAO-09-838R 1 (2009-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanoq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GA 0 T I IAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 20, 2009 The Honorable Thomas R. Carper Chairman The Honorable John McCain Ranking Member Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Tom Coburn, M.D. United States Senate Subject: Improper Payments: Responses to Posthearing Questions Related to Eliminating Waste and Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid On April 22, 2009, we testified' before your subcommittee at a hearing entitled, Eliminating Waste and Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. At that hearing, we discussed federal agencies' progress in estimating and reducing improper payments, as well as existing challenges for federal agencies to fully meet the requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA).2 Further, our testimony provided an overview of implementation of IPIA with respect to the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This letter responds to a May 29, 2009, request for responses to questions for the record related to our April 22, 2009, testimony. Our responses are based on work associated with previously issued GAO reports (see Related GAO Products at the end of this correspondence), data included in HHS's fiscal year 2008 annual financial report (AFR), and data reported for fiscal year 2008 by CMS. We conducted our work from May 2009 to July 2009 in accordance with all sections of GAO's Quality Assurance Framework that are relevant to our objectives. The framework requires that we plan and perform the engagement to obtain sufficient and appropriate evidence to meet our stated objectives and to discuss any limitations in our work. We 'GAO, Improper Payments: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Estimating and Reducing Improper Payments, GAO-O9-628T (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 22, 2009). 2Pub. L. No. 107-300, 116 Stat. 2350 (Nov. 26, 2002). GAO-09-838R Posthearing Questions

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