Dual Wins for Transparency

The Government Accountability Office published a damning report a few years ago that one-third of all federal spending isn’t reported on USASpending.gov. Last week, a new law was enacted that will begin to cure the missing daylight. It’s one of two new reforms that made September a huge win for taxpayers who care about spending transparency.

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Cost of Medicare for All

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Consultants Help Score $1.5 Billion from Medicaid

ederal auditors have flagged more than $1.5 billion of those claims as improper or unsupported across four states, and the consultant was the same in every one: Boston-based Public Consulting Group (PCG). New Jersey’s audit states the firm was hired “on a contingency fee basis,” and the Government Accountability Office has found consultants building school Medicaid claims collected fees of 3 to 25 percent of the federal reimbursement.

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