Will never catch up. It doesnt matter how much we fund it were not going to catch up and thats a lot of money to be held from individuals. What is the conversation out there related to that . So we do realize that as we procure the next round of contractors that there is sort of a transition issue. What we have done is pause the program during this transition. What we dont want to happen is for one contractor to initiate an audit and for a second contractor to then complete that audit. So we are working it happens all the time. We are working to avoid it at this time. So the last round of audits were initiated or permitted to be initiated the beginning of february. Those must be completed in a timely manner so that and then the current batch of r. A. C. S can wind down and the new batch can wind up. During this pause we are also using it to taking advantage of it to alter the Program Based on input that weve gotten from providers and other stakeholders to make it more transparent to providers to provide more education and to make sure that its focused on all areas of improper payment. When will that be public . The procurement process is going on right now. We are following sort of standard federal procurement requirements. There are statements of work that in order to be actually get proposals that either have hit or will soon hit public transparency and contractors will be able to respond to. Any final comments . I appreciate you being here. And for the conversation. Your work is extremely important both in transparency and in helping us deal with improper payments and fraud. I think youve heard from this committee pretty clearly we need to balance. We need providers. Right now with whats happening with health care across the country were lose progress viders. And anything that discourages a provider from continuing to stay open makes the problem worse. We have more seniors every day joining into medicare and we have a problem with providers staying in based on reimbursements and base on just sheer compliance. And the frustration of that. This is reaching a really bad spot. Weve got to make sure were working with providers to keep the good actors and wed out the bad actors and educate those that just made a mistake rather than push them out of business. With that were adjourned. Next, q a with john sop ca the special invector general. Live at 7 00 a. M. Your calls and comments on washington ournal. Cspans new book sundays at eight includes the writer talking about his lifestyle. I always knew that theres a risk in the bohemian lifestyle and i decided to take it because whether its an illusion or not i dont think it is it helped my concentration, it stopped me being bored, stopped other people being boring to some extent, it would keep me awake it would make me want the evening to go on longer, to enhance the moment. If i was asked would i do it again, the answer is probably yes i would have quit earlier possibly hoping to get away with the whole thing. Easy for me to say of course not very nice for my children to hear it sounds irresponsible if i say i would do all that again to you but the truth is it would be hypocritical for me to say no i would never touch the stuff if i had known because i did know. Everyone knows. And i decided all of life is a wager. Im going to wager on this bit. And i cant make it come out any other way. Read the interview with Christopher Hitchens and other featured conversations with our booknotes and q a programs at cspan sundays at eight. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014]