According to the executive summary of the report, the $40 million would be used to continue to prevent healthcare fraud and to enforce current antifraud laws through the OIG’s Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team initiative.
The OIG also called for $25 million to continue oversight of Medicare and Medicaid activities. A mandatory funding initiative for these activities expires at the end of FY 2010.
With the addition of these provisions, the total proposed OIG budget is $323.8 million, up $41.5 million from FY 2010.
Read the OIG’s Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees (pdf).
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