WASHINGTON—Senator Mike Braun, Ranking Member of the Senate Aging Committee, joined Mornings with Maria on Fox Business to announce the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) acceptance of his request to audit Medicare following reports of the $2.7 billion Medicare catheter fraud ring and the estimated $60 billion lost to Medicare Fraud a year.
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“We wrote a letter to the GAO and just found out that they’re going to finally investigate.”
“Listen to this, $2.7 billion a year on urinary catheters. Part of $60 billion a year and the Medicare trust fund goes broke in four years. The ineptitude of these agencies and the amount of waste and fraud is unbelievable.”
Senator Braun also joined WRTV to speak about the update of his Medicare audit request and shared information about his bill, the Medicare Transaction Fraud Prevention Act, that he led with Senator Cassidy that will utilize AI to target Medicare fraud.
