Word: gao
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...program's success--but one that other states will be hard put to duplicate with fewer federal dollars. Although ahcccs' administrative costs are higher than those in states that operate under a traditional Medicaid system, Arizona is still saving money. According to a report by the General Accounting Office (gao), Arizona is saving 7% a year on acute care and 16% on long-term care, compared with a similar program in neighboring New Mexico, a state with comparable demographics...
...care companies could allow 5% of their patients to use nongeneric drugs if absolutely necessary. Keeping the providers from defecting may prove more difficult. Many doctors feel that the medical budget for poor Tennesseeans was balanced on their backs. Even now, money for TennCare is tight. According to a gao report comparing TennCare's reimbursement rates with the old Medicaid levels, doctors now get slightly higher fees for visits and consultations, but for some forms of surgery and radiology they receive 20% to 50% less than they did before...
...congressional study of Medicare abuse says fraudulent billing practices by doctors will cost the cash-strapped program $4 billion over the next five years. The General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, blames much of the problem on obsolete computer technology used in auditing the Medicare claims submitted by doctors. GAO investigators testified before the Senate today that a minority of doctors (8 percent) are responsible for most of the abuse. Still, their creative use of the Medicare billing system has already cost more than $1.24 billion in the last two years. The new evidence of damage done by grifting doctors...
...federal government is easing its ban on giving security clearances to gays, according to a Congressional General Accounting Office report. Federal agencies for years had denied such clearances to homosexuals on the assumption that all gays were at risk of being blackmailed. The GAO said today that it reviewed records for contractors and civilians from eight agencies and found homosexuality was no longer a criterion for granting security clearances. Six of those agencies have written policies that prohibit asking clearance applicants about their sexual orientation. The Defense Department and the Secret Service said sexual orientation is no longer a criterion...
...Given the combined spending levels above what is budgeted annually, it is now clear that the District of Columbia will run out of cash by this summer," the GAO report reads. "In fact, today the District of Columbia is insolvent...