PYMNTS.com February 5, 2025
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly gained access to Medicare’s payment system.
Representatives from the newly-created department have been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), getting into the agencies’ payment and contracting systems, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Feb. 5).
Sources told the WSJ DOGE employees have been on site at CMS all week, looking at the systems and the spending flowing through it to root out fraud and waste.
Musk acknowledged the efforts on his X platform, writing: “Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening,” in reference to the Medicare agency.
While DOGE’s work has shaken up other government offices in the last two weeks, the WSJ...
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