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Vijay D’Souza, Director of Health Care Issues, GAO

Improper payments associated with the military's TRICARE health system added up to about 0.3 percent of DoD's overall costs. Improper payments associated with M...

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February 23, 2015 4:47 pm

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Improper payments associated with the military’s TRICARE health system added up to about 0.3 percent of DoD’s overall costs. Improper payments associated with Medicare were more than 10 percent of overall costs for the Health and Human Services Department. Vijay D’Souza is director of health care issues at the Government Accountability Office. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said TRICARE’s low rate of improper payments might be too good to be true.