Last year, we wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was done chasing criminals after we’d already handed them money. We said we were building something different — a prevention-first operation that would detect and stop fraud before the check cleared, not attempt to claw back lost funds years later.
Skeptics had reason to doubt. Government agencies announce transformations all the time. The results usually don’t follow.
So here are the numbers:
In fiscal year 2025, Medicare savings from the prevention of fraud, waste and abuse hit $42 billion — an almost 60% increase over the prior year and the highest figure ever recorded in the program’s history. That’s not just a line on a spreadsheet. In Medicare’s coffers, $42 billion can pay for 3 million knee replacements, 7 million cataract removals or 37.5 million routine colonoscopies.
Finding and…
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on every sensitive account, specifically your primary email and banking apps, opting for authenticator apps over SMS to mitigate the risk of SIM-swap fraud.