Mr. Obama said the auditors would have an incentive to find improper payments because they would receive a small percentage of the savings. “It’s estimated that improper payments cost taxpayers almost $100 billion last year alone,” he said. “If we created a Department of Improper Payments, it would actually be one of the biggest departments in our government.”
The auditors — whom some White House officials are already referring to as “bounty hunters” — would have high-tech computer programs that would troll through billing records for fraudulent claims. White House officials said that a pilot program run by Medicare in California, New York and Texas recaptured $900 million in taxpayer money between 2005 and 2008.
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