Sun to Set on Overzealous Fraud Investigations - 05/13/2016
After a scathing Sunset Advisory Commission report on the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Texas Medical Association supports improving the agency's investigations of physicians accused of fraud, waste, and abuse. The report says the OIG — tasked with preventing, detecting, and investigating fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicaid system — fails at fraud prevention, takes more than three years to resolves cases, and wins back only a fraction of the amount of allegedly abusive or wasteful spending it identifies.