“The Trump administration has a fever for curing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA)–in fact, this is perhaps the most important Three Letter Acronym in Federal IT today. So, GAO’s January report on the shortcomings of CMS Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) and the fact that Medicaid improper payments hit an estimated $36.7 billion in 2017 raised temperatures across government.”
“So, what is T-MSIS and why is GAO getting hot under the collar? CMS developed T-MSIS in 2011 to modernize the way that states report Medicaid data to CMS. The system provides common data standards to reduce the reporting burden on states and normalize information feeds so that CMS can effectively analyze data to detect best practices and anomalies.”
“That makes a lot of sense. However, GAO tells us the program still isn’t doing…” Read the full article here.
Source: Meritalk, GAO Diagnoses State/CMS Data Malady–Flags $36.7 Billion Improper Payments – Feb 19, 2018.
