The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have announced more than $500 million in “anti-fraud savings” from last year.
OPM is tasked with administering health benefits for federal workers, retirees, United States Postal Service (USPS) employees, and their family members. The anti-fraud savings were achieved in the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs, the agency said in a Sept. 29 statement.
Around $237.7 million was saved by reducing or stopping claims before payout, roughly $271.9 million in losses were avoided by changing factors such as billing, and $21.9 million was recovered after payments had gone out….