Grassley: Finance Will Broach Medicare, Medicaid Improper Pay; Mergers

Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Wednesday (Jan. 9) said he expects to spend time looking at Medicare and Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse now that he has resumed the chairmanship, along with health care anti-trust issues. However, he said he didn’t have a long list of specific issues he was looking at and isn’t sure those areas of focus will lead to specific investigations. “There’s probably going to be a lot of references to waste, fraud and...