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OIG's April 2023 Testimony — Agency Staffing Shortages, Impacting Fraud Case Load
On April 18, 2023, The HHS Inspector General provided testimony before Congress – subcommittee on “Oversight and Investigations”.
Based on the HHS Inspector General's Testimony, OIG lacks adequate staffing resources to keep up with the level of fraud, waste, and abuse for HHS programs that currently involve more than $2.4 trillion in HHS expenditures in Fiscal Year 2022.
CMS Releases 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on Nov. 1, 2022, which institutes changes to both Medicare physician payments and quality reporting program policies that will take effect Jan. 1, 2023.