Medical Economics February 5, 2025
Key Takeaways
- DOGE is examining CMS’s payment systems and organizational structure to identify fraud and waste, with read-only database access.
- The department, created by President Trump, seeks to modernize federal technology for increased efficiency and productivity.
- Recent DOGE actions include cutting diversity-related contracts and efforts to integrate USAID into the State Department.
- Mehmet Oz has been nominated as CMS administrator, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as HHS secretary advances in the Senate.
WSJ: Department of Government Efficiency examines payment and contracting systems.
Staff from the new federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have gone to work this week at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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