The cms initiative has contributed to an estimated 50,000 fewer patient deaths in hospitals and 1. 3 million hospital acquired conditions saving 12 billion over three years. Medical review strategies have resulted in over 5 billion of savings in just the last year. He are working to transform medicare into a highvalue paler with payment is based on quality and not just volume and we remain focused on preventing waste and abuse and fraud before it occurs. This is not just about cost the threatening than a Beneficiary Services and a host of other problems. Since 2011 we have been using the system to provide advanced analytics on all the feeforservice claims. The system also incorporates beneficiary complaints and works with numerous other inputs to generate and prioritize further reviews and investigations. Cms takes administrative action to stop problematic behaviors through the suspension of payments and medical review of claims and a removal from the program. As we recently reported t
Noted in my testimony in 2013 as a result of spending and Information Technology the Information Technology business, modernization problem for the irs was taken of the highrisk list having been there for 14 years. It was proven in the i t area that if we have the funding we can make significant progress. Is great for the i t area but other areas need to be addressed and 25 years is far too long. Time to put some teeth into it. I now recognize the gentleman from florida for five minutes. Commissioner koskinen, a year ago the senior irs leaders and learned lois lerners hard drive had crashed. There was an issue about getting her emails off of backup tapes, you wrote a letter to Senate Finance in june of 2014 saying there were problems with her emails and backup tapes had been destroyed. And on june 20th you testified before the ways and means committee, went to Great Lengths and made extraordinary efforts to recover lower as lerners email please let me ask you this, after the irs began
Sure its very important. That we have the appropriate people working. Im a big supporter of igs, and we take it seriously. We have implemented their recommendations. We have a personal Security Group now that ensures before an offer goes out if you have violated 1203b which are the two most serious issues you dont get hired. And if there are other conduct issues, not only are we going to follow the opm rules were going to review those for appropriateness for employment at the irs. People need to be comfortable that we take it seriously. And people working for the irs ought to be tax compliant. I appreciate that. And i would like the information on those that are still employed that came under these 824. The 824 covers a large a lot of the gentlemans time is expired. I recognize the gentleman from alabama, mr. Palmer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to give mr. Koskanan a break here for a minute. I dont want you to think thats not appreciated. Well that doesnt mean i w
Basically it relates to the activities counter by the activities or overseeing this by activities of another group so one group does not have full control over this or a process where this is being processed because they could potentially make undetected changes to the Software Processing data and we dont want that to happen. So developers in this case should be confined to a development environment. My understanding, my children will till you but i have no technological knowledge, but kind of like a submarine when there is a leak in one area you can close off that section and in another area where the leak occurs doesnt infect the other areas. Is that occurring now in the federal agencies with the situation . Yes, and several there are about 14 agencies that have weaknesses in segregation control. And they have an example that you highlighted that exude a sense and that is another Security Defense principle that agencies support layer upon layer of security controls in the event that
Of heritage is the amendment salmon. For defense budgeting. She is in our Sarah Allison center for National Security he. Shes familiar with u. S. Defense platforms, government contract name and brings her expertise to defense hardware investment. Before joining Heritage Commission worked at the washington d. C. Headquarters of an asset group. She later became their manager of an Analytics Global defense spending data subscription business. From 27,292,009, ms. Salmon served in the allison center. Heritage both as and heritage of National Security issues. She earned her bachelors degree in Political Science at the university of california irvine and a masters in International Relations from the school of advanced International Studies at johns hopkins. Please join me in welcoming them. [applause] good afternoon in thank you also much for joining the Heritage Foundation and the veteran of America Today for what we hope will be a great conversation with Mark Greenblatt about his most rece