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Lawmakers call for review of DoD improper payments

Thirteen lawmakers sent a letter to DoD urging greater efforts to eliminate improper payments.

Tags: DoD , Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act , Tom Carper , Congress , Jolie Lee

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Platts calls for more controls over improper payments

The chairman of the subcommittee on federal financial management said legislation may be needed to ensure agency accounting procedures are focusing on stopping improper payments. He said progress across the government is good, but more tools are necessary. OMB is testing the Do Not Pay List and plans to launch the full portal in 2012.

Tags: management , Todd Platts , Danny Werfel , OMB , Oversight and Government Reform Committee , SSA , CMS , DoD , VA , DHS , Do Not Pay List , Recovery audits , internal controls , Jason Miller

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CMS to take on improper payments in new way

The agency plans to follow the model credit card companies use to identify potential problems on the front end instead of trying to chase down the money after the fact. CMS accounts for about 46 percent of all improper payments across the government. Overall, OMB wants to reduce the governmentwide error rate to 4.18 percent by 2013.

Tags: management , technology , Kay Daly , George Mills , Judith Oliveira , David Sidari , OMB , GAO , CMS , SSA , HUD , HHS , recovery auditing , predictive modeling , Jason Miller

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Tips for reducing improper payments

Reducing improper payments is important to any agency or company. Dave Dantus and Russell Keziere from Pegasystems offer tips.
February 15, 2011

Tags: Dave Dantus , Pegasystems , Russell Keziere , John Gilroy , ARMATURE

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Platts zeroes in on agency financials

House oversight subcommittee will kick off the financial management agenda next week.

Tags: management , financial management , Todd Platts , House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , GAO , OMB , Ed Towns , Meg Beasley

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TSP board buys $1.5M program to stop improper payments

TSP Board's Tom Trabucco describes the news system aimed at preventing another improper payment that happened earlier in the month.

Tags: pay and benefits , Thrift Savings Plan , Tom Trabucco , technology , Dorobek Insider , Federal Times

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HHS, Justice turning up heat on fraudsters

New rule published today details how the government will go from chasing criminals to using data and other tools to stop them as Medicare and Medicaid fraud is happening. The agencies report returning $4 billion back to the government in 2010, a 50 percent increase compared to 2009.

Tags: management , Kathleen Sebelius , Thomas Perrelli , Gerry Roy , Donald Berwick , Peter Budetti , HHS , Justice , CMS , Medicare and Medicaid , fraud , Jason Miller

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New governmentwide financial systems on tap

OMB controller Danny Werfel said the Treasury Department should be finished testing and analyzing systems in the next six months. The CFO Council highlights priorities for 2011, and among them is the further reduction of improper payments. Werfel said agencies will begin using the software tool first utilized by the Recovery Board to identify potential problems.

Tags: management , Danny Werfel , OMB , GAO , DoD , Treasury , CMS , financial management , audit opinion , CFO Council , Recovery Act , forensic auditing , Jason Miller

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OMB redefines federal financial health

The head of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Financial Management said the federal audit community has a powerful new tool to battle improper payments and fraud. Danny Werfel said for most citizens, battling improper payments may even trump the accounting community's holy grail of a clean audit opinion.

Tags: management , OMB , Danny Werfel , audits , AGA , Max Cacas

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Werfel focuses on financial IT deployment

OMB controller understands why average citizens are simply not interested in the typical agency financial statement.

Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , management , CFO Act , AICPA , OMB , Danny Werfel , financial management

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