The Affordable Care Act improves and expands consumer protections, strengthens Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and reduces health care costs. One important way it achieves these goals is by improving government-wide efforts to fight fraud, waste and abuse. The new law contains some critical new tools to improve and enhance the Administration’s efforts to prevent and detect fraud, and crack down on individuals who attempt to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP as well as private insurance. Please click here for more information: New Tools to Fight Fraud
