United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

Medicare Enforcement Actions: The Federal Government's Anti-Fraud Effects

July 26, 2001

 

This hearing will highlight ways to distinguish human error from fraud, the coordination among government agencies fighting Medicare fraud, provider compliance and education issues, and the Medicare appeals process.

    Date: July 26, 2001
    Time: 10:00 a.m.
    Dirksen 124

Statements of Committee Members

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Witness Testimony

    Panel I

    1. Thomas Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

    Panel II

    1. Leslie Aronovitz, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, DC

    2. Stuart Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC

    3. Lewis Morris, Assistant Inspector General for Legal Affairs, Health and Human Service Office of Inspector General, Washington, DC

    Panel III

    1. Robert Charrow, Esq., Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Washington, DC

    2. Joseph diGenova, Esq., American Hospital Association, Washington, DC

    3. James W. Moorman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Taxpayers Against Fraud, Washington, DC

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