{"id":26296,"date":"2026-07-21T10:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26296"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:20:37","slug":"actions-needed-to-reduce-improper-payment-and-fraud-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26296","title":{"rendered":"Actions needed to reduce improper payment and fraud risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each year, the Office of Management and Budget identifies programs considered high priority for improper payments. \u00a0In 2025, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Care program and the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services\u2019 (CMS) Medicare Advantage program are two of the 30 programs designated as high priority. \u00a0However, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found gaps in the agencies\u2019 efforts to reduce improper payments and fraud risks. To learn what the GAO found and its recommendations, click<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-26-107946\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-26-107946\"> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the Office of Management and Budget identifies programs considered high priority for improper payments. \u00a0In 2025, the Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1751,21,6,9,4,7],"tags":[80,2122,329,385,238,620,61,62,87,245],"class_list":["post-26296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-gao","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medicare-fraud","category-veterans-benefits","tag-cms","tag-fraud-risks","tag-gao","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-improper-payments","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296","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=26296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26297,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions\/26297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}