maxxam healthcare agreed to pay 150 million-dollar settlement but is not barred from participating in the medicaid program. this hearing is about two and a half hours. >> welcome everybody here in the joint committee, a joint subcommittee hearing. the subcommittee on government organization and efficiency and financial management along with the subcommittee on health care, district of columbia census and the national archives to read today's hearing will examine the serious problem fraud, waste and abuse and medicaid. in fiscal year 2011 the medicaid program issued $21.9 billion in improper payments. higher than any program in government accept medicare. it is on known how much of these proper to lead to improper payments or fraudulent or how much fraud goes. the integrity program is responsible for identifying improper payments to getting providers about fraud, providing assistance to the states in order to combat fraud and abuse. the patient protection affordable care act of 2010 expanded funding for medicaid program integrity. however, it also expands the size of the medicaid progr

maybe a couple of snowflakes will maxxam before early morning on saturday. new year's eve, things clear up. it should be nice and quiet for everyone heading out to celebrate the new year on saturday night. just off the edge of the map is a serious arctic cold front that will come through on sunday night. the jet stream look at all the way down to the northern part of florida early next week. the cold air will spill all the way down to the east coast and you will see it reflected in the seven-day forecast. drive new year's eve and then new year's day at night, a chance for some rain as the front comes through. look at temperatures early next week. a high of only 29 on tuesday. the average high as 42 to give you a little perspective. maybe some snow flurries monday and tuesday as well. >> verizon customers is instituting a two dollar fee paid bills online or by telephone. that will be billed -- that will be waived by people -- it cites convenience as one of the ways people like to shop online is for the deals. sometimes it is not that easy. when website is wor

beginning in march of 2003i received home health care through maxxam health care services under this program. maxxam ability some care services to medicaid which paid for them with both state and federal funds. in september of 2004i received a letter from the new issues the department of disability services. the home and community service is telling me that i have exceeded my cat and that my medicaid services were being temporarily reduced as a result. this prevented me from attaining the needed dental care. i complained to the seat of new jersey. a complete to medicaid and to the worker assigned to me telling them that medicaid had been billed for nursing care that i had not received and none of them did anything about it. since none of the government agencies i contacted about this did anything i hired a private attorney, robin west, no relation of baltimore maryland who filed on my behalf to whistle-blower lawsuit of false claims act that triggered an investigation. some decided to make a profit of my disability and ripoff the government. that was wrong. the right thing for me to

beginning in march of 2003i received home health care through maxxam health care services under this program. maxxam ability some care services to medicaid which paid for them with both state and federal funds. september of 2004i receive a letter from the new issues the department of disability services. the home and community service is telling me that i have exceeded my cat and that my medicaid services wereeing temporarily reduced as a result. this prevented me from attaining the needed dental care. i complained to the seat of new jersey. a complete to medicaid and to the worker assigned to me telling them that medicaid had been billed for nursing care that i had not received and none of them did anything about i. since none of the government agencies i contacted about this did anything i hired a private attorney, robin west, no relation of baltimore maryland who filed on my behalf to whistle-blower lawsuit of false claims act that triggered an investigation. some decided to make a profit of my disability and ripoff the government. that was wrong. the right thing for me to do is e

>>mark: we are watching windy conditions out maxxam. >>darya: the winds have died down. now it is all about cleanup. fijian the crews are still working on getting power back to south they customers. nearly 200,000 people are still in the dark. the most outages right now or cylindrical in san creance to death because and customers are waiting for her to beat george. all of the power is back on data into the north bay. if you have any pictures of damage from yesterday, sending it to us at www.kron4.com. now, we're switching gears, the first thing you'll notice this morning is not the wind, the warm weather. >>mark: we do still have some lesser conditions out there but nothing like what we saw yesterday. temperatures get it up to potentially near 70 degrees. these are not highs for today, these are the current temperatures. 68 in a bottle. 63 in san francisco. set and as a just dropped below the 50 degree mark. we have a really nice start to temperatures. here is a look at current wind conditions. it is higher up where we see the stronger winds at sea level. temperatures th

west for coming forward with allegations of billing fraud on the part of maxxam health care services.the oic recognizes our success is dependent upon collaboration with courageous individuals like mr. west. the recommendations he provided was critical to us in helping us unravel a broad scheme within the health care that span across the nation. our investigation resulted in maxim agreeing to pay more than $150 million to resolve similar to the kosovo and criminal allegations of fraud, the largest ever settlement related to home health services. nine individuals, including three senior managers, also pled guilty to felony charges. this example highlights the potential for citizens and government to collaborate and curtail schemes and are harming the nation's most vulnerable citizens. we encourage citizens to report suspected fraud so we can investigate and bring to justice those responsible. medicaid fraud trains vital federal and state program dollars. that harms both recipients relying on the services as well as the american taxpayers to oig as a team of over 480 highly skilled crimi