mr. blum is responsible for overseeing the medicare prescription drug program and formerly worked as an adviser to one of our good friends and colleagues, senator max baucus on the finance committee. you're the finance committee staff? our final witness is louis saccoccio, there we go, louis saccoccio. very good. executive director national health care antifraud association. mr. saccoccio and his group worked to increase awareness and improve direction of health care fraud. i also understand mr. saccoccio his former navy jack dwyer and graduate of the u.s. naval academy served for eight years, including a state legal carrier of the u.s., is that correct? good for you. good old navy guy. silly we are in good company. thank you for that service and ask for being here today. folks, you know the drill. we ask that you take five minutes for a statement. if you go but that's okay. if you go way over that's not okay. mr. kutz carmelita saskia >> ranking member of sherrod brown thank you for the oppor

mr. blum oversees the prescription drug program and was an adviser to one of our good friends and colleagues, senator max baucus. our final witness is louis saccoccio and executive director of the national health care antifraud association. he and his group worked to increase awareness and improve the protection and prevention of health care fraud. i also understand that he is former navy jag lawyer and graduate of the naval academy and was a tour as a legal officer on the carrier of the usst-hawk. is that correct? good for you. a navy guy, a jag guy next to me. we're in good company. thank you for that service and thank you for being here today. folks, you know the drill. take five minutes for the statement. if you go over a little, that's okay. if you go way over that's not okay, and we'll bring you back in. >> thank you for the opportunity to discuss medicare part d. in 2009 i testified before this committee on doctor shopping with medicaid. this testimony will highlight the results of the

. >> mr. blum? >> just in closing just to thank you and the committee for having this hearing. i think of art perspective is seen that oversight helps us understand vulnerabilities and what we can approve the part d program. i think the part d program to are believed to stronger for beneficiaries. there has been during the five or six year history, but at the same time there are vulnerabilities. we have to make sure those vulnerabilities are not close down while also maintaining the goals that we have with the part d program to ensure the beneficiaries have drug benefits that will improve their health and to provide access. so in closing, thank you for the attention, thank you for commissioning the gao report. it was hopeful for us and there are definite to do for us to follow up on, follow this conversation. looking forward to working with you and your staff to report back on that follow-up. >> we will welcome that. >> i thank you for inviting us to this, and we enjoyed working in a bipartisan fashion with yours and senator brown staff. i appreciate the constructive nature of