ICD10monitor July 2, 2025
Drew Updike, MD, MPH

Over the past few months, a number of my articles have covered a combination of social injustices and oddities from federal agencies. In this article, I am going to refocus on a central source of information for many Monitor Monday listeners and RACmonitor readers: that is, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Members of the HHS OIG wake up every day with the hope of helping the American people combat fraud, waste, and abuse. Preventing “fraud” ensures integrity in our public programs; reducing “waste” right-sizes the resources required; stymying “abuse” safeguards benefit recipients.

As I reported in my May 12 Monitor Monday segment1, and reiterated in a June 11 RACmonitor article2, the...

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