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Showing You the Money: GAO’s 2014 Performance and Accountability Report
What is GAO’s audit work worth to you, the taxpayer? Today, we can tell you that in fiscal year 2014, our work led to $54.4 billion in financial benefits—a $100 return for every $1 Congress invested in us. We also … Continue reading
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Medicare Recommendations for Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Awareness Month
September may be Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Awareness Month, but GAO tracks this issue year round. Because the Medicare program is particularly susceptible to fraud, waste, and abuse, it has been on our High Risk list since we started compiling … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, fraud, HC, health, health and human services, Healthcare, healthcare abuse, healthcare fraud, Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Awareness Month, healthcare waste, high risk, medicare, open recommendations, recommendations, social security numbers, waste
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Why Do GAO Recommendations Get Implemented?
While GAO is empowered to make recommendations to federal agencies and to bring matters to Congress for their consideration, we don’t actually have the authority to require agencies to make changes. Yet, we consistently report results we have achieved for … Continue reading
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Tagged about GAO, accountability, government accountability office, performance, process, recommendations, review, standards, yellow book
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FY 2013 Performance and Accountability Summary Report
As an independent non-partisan agency that serves as the audit and investigative arm of Congress, we examine how taxpayer dollars are spent and advise lawmakers and agency heads on ways to make government work better. We recently issued a summary of … Continue reading
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Tagged about GAO, accountability, financial benefits, FY 2013, GAO impact, government accountability office, impact, mission, operations, performance, Performance and Accountability Report, recommendations, reports, taxpayers, testimony, usgao
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