{"id":26059,"date":"2026-06-04T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26059"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:11:15","slug":"crackdown-on-massive-fraud-in-government-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26059","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown on massive fraud in government programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been estimated that taxpayers lost between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraudsters between 2018 and 2022, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Every dollar lost to fraud is equivalent to $858 per beneficiary yearly. Robert E. Moffit, PhD, Senior Research Fellow in Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation, explains how American taxpayers and Medicare beneficiaries are victims of massive fraud and what the Trump\u2019s Administration is doing to address it. Read Mr. Moffit\u2019s column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/health-care-reform\/commentary\/giant-job-trumps-crackdown-medicare-fraud\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/health-care-reform\/commentary\/giant-job-trumps-crackdown-medicare-fraud\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been estimated that taxpayers lost between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraudsters between 2018 and 2022, according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,37,4],"tags":[80,704,238,61],"class_list":["post-26059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-illegal-activities","category-medicare-fraud","tag-cms","tag-fraud","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26060,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions\/26060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}