WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following press release:
As part of the ongoing efforts of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to crush fraud in the healthcare system and protect taxpayer dollars, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking aggressive, sweeping actions within the Federal Marketplace - canceling approximately 315,000 unauthorized enrollments covering more than 760,000 individuals, which is expected to result in a return of roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.
CMS has established a Federally-facilitated Exchange (FFE) anti-fraud coordination group that brings together leadership from across CMS and the U.S. Department of Health and Huma...