Full Committee Hearing

Medicaid Waste, Fraud and Abuse: Threatening the Health Care Safety Net


Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 Time: 10:00 AM Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building

Member Statements


  1.  Chuck Grassley (R - IA)
  2. Senator Max Baucus (D - MT)

Witnesses


Panel I

  1. The Honorable Daniel Levinson
    Inspector General
    Office of the Inspector General, United States Department of Health and Human Services
    Washington , DC
  2. Leslie Aronovitz
    Director, Health Care
    United States Gorvernment Accountability Office
    Chicago , IL
  3. James W. Moorman
    President and CEO
    Taxpayers Against Fraud
    Washington , DC
  4. Nicholas Messuri
    President, Assistant Attorney General, Director, Bureau Chief
    National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Business & Labor Protection Bureau, Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
    Boston , MA
  5. Tim Westmoreland
    Research Professor
    Georgetown University
    Washington , DC

Panel II

  1. Kathryn Allen
    Director, Health Care
    United States Government Accountability Office
    Washington , DC
  2. Dennis Smith
    Director, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    United States Department of Health and Human Services
    Washington , DC
  3. Barbara Edwards
    Medicaid Director
    Office of Ohio Health Plans
    Columbus , OH
  4. George Reeb
    Assistant Inspector General
    Centers for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Audits, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services
    Washington , DC
  5. Chuck Milligan
    Executive Director
    Center for Health Program Development and Management, University of Maryland
    Baltimore County , Baltimore, MD

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