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The cms initiative has contributed to an estimated 50,000 fewer patient deaths in hospitals and 1. 3 million hospital acquired conditions saving 12 billion over three years. Medical review strategies have resulted in over 5 billion of savings in just the last year. He are working to transform medicare into a highvalue paler with payment is based on quality and not just volume and we remain focused on preventing waste and abuse and fraud before it occurs. This is not just about cost the threatening than a Beneficiary Services and a host of other problems. Since 2011 we have been using the syste...

That translates into fewer audits and collection cases and we estimate the government will lose at least 2 billion in revenue that otherwise would have been collected. Additionally, the reductions have forced us to make cuts in taxpayer service. This is troublesome because he we cant provide the Services Taxpayers need to fulfill their Tax Obligations voluntary compliance will fall. This concludes my statements that i would be happy to take your questions. Mr. Estevez . Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss a couple of years of highrisk identified by gao specifi...

Implementation to goad and exhort and encourage. I think thats really good. With respect to the whole subject, you are familiar with the document issued december 10. Yes, im familiar with it. I assume that you and your i. T. Expert let me not assume assume. Was that a helpful document in terms of laying out goals and objectives . Yes. You concur. It set the foundation for key initiatives going forward. And for example when it talks about we ought to approve funding of major i. T. Programs only when it meets three basic criteria. Right . Have a dedicated manager parnd a fully staffed integrated...

I sent you a text and i want to compliment you actually, sent you ton ean email. I want to compliment you that on a weekend you responded via email, which was shockingly surprising, and i just want to say thank you. Do you have the automatic reenrollment numbers that ive been requesting from cms . Have they given those to you . Mr. Meadows thanks for the question, and happy to be accessible whenever you need. The answer is i think were still working on it. That is part of the agency, obviously, that i dont have direct oversight over. My understanding is youve had numerous conversations with th...