i am gloria jarmon deputy inspector general for audit and also inspector general for health and humanservices. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the strategy to combat fraud and promote program integrity and medicare. medicare represented more than 15 percent of all federal spending 2017. expenditures can be expected to rise further as a number beneficiaries increases and per capita healthcare costs continue to increase. this makes it more important than ever to protect medicare's financial integrity by fighting fraud and reducing improper payments. a central component of the mission. the multidisciplinary team conducts audits, investigations for identify payments and building cases against those who seek to defraud the medicare program. this work has led to numerous fraud convictions and has generated recommendations for improper payment recovery and prevention of future improper payments. oig has long been in the forefront of measuring monitoring and recommending actions to prevent improper payments. we developed the first medicare payment error rate

gloria l. jarmon, deputy inspector general for audit services at the department of health and human services office of the inspector general . alec alexander, director of the center for program integrity at the centers for medicare and medicaid services . the subcommittee has received your written statement. and they will all be made part of the formal hearing record. you each have 5 minutes to deliver oral remarks, and so we will get started. we will begin with mr. bagdoyan. you may be good when you are ready. >> thank you, madam chairman. chairman c-span, making member list, and members of the subcommittee, i am pleased to appear before you this morning to discuss g.a.o.'s's report on managing fraud risk programs including -- medicare. they totaled about 15% of all federal everett, covering over 58 million beneficiaries. reflecting an aging population and rising per capita health cost, cbo projects these expenditures to rise to more than $1.5 trillion by 2028, or the equivalent of about 21% of all f