Schaaf says the government has been using a 2006 law, that allows for unnecessary audits and demands that NGOs maintain cumbersome and unnecessary paperwork;

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The money is then used to pay for pet projects, from defense procurement to construction, with no government audits or accountability of any sort.

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Not surprisingly, according to one Harvard expert, Medicaid overpayments routinely clock in at 6-7 percent (based on official government audits) and the program is rife with fraud.

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For practitioners and those who advise them in connection with potentially burdensome government audits, one benefit is found in the written response that Marilyn Tavenner of CMS provided to Senator Hatch on August 27, 2012.

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