The Obama administration in fiscal year 2014 recovered $3.3 billion in fraudulent health care payments, HHS and the Department of Justice announced Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to HHS, the administration has recovered $7.70 for every $1 spent looking into potential health care-related fraud and abuse over the past three years. In addition, the administration has reduced the amount of time that lapses between when fraud is first identified and when arrests are made in the cases, according to the Journal. Overall, the Medicare Trust Fund has recovered more than $27.8 billion through the fraud and abuse program since it began in 1997.
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