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Government Anti-Fraud Efforts Have Tripled The Amount Of Money Recovered From Scams | The federal government has made significant progress in recovering money from fraud and abuse in Medicaid, USA Today reports, noting that HHS has “more than tripled the amount of money it has recovered” in the past six years. “Much of the money comes as the Obama administration, with bipartisan help in Congress, has increased spending on anti-fraud programs,” the paper notes. The Affordable Care Act includes numerous anti-fraud provisions from increasing the federal sentencing guidelines for health care fraud to appropriating an additional $350 million over 10 years to ramp up anti-fraud efforts.