Today's guest:

Valerie Melvin — Director of information management and technology resource issues, Government Accountability Office

The Medicare computer network serves millions of healthcare providers that need to check patient eligibility — and it only about three seconds to get results.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has come a long way to get real results for the citizens it serves, according to a recent review by the Government Accountability Office.

Valerie Melvin, director of information management and technology resources issues at GAO, joins In Depth to discuss the program and the steps CMS took to improve it.

CMS took steps to improve its beneficiary eligibility verification system (link to GAO report)

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