ms. melvin?>> chairman platts, ranking members towns and adidas and members of the subcommittee, think you for inviting me to testify to the ceiling on fraud and improper payments in the medicaid program. fi request fisa testimony will find summaries from the report be issued earlier this year on cms's efforts to protect the integrity of the medicare and medicaid program through the use of information technology. specifically on june, 2011 we've reported on to programs that cms initiated in 2006 to help improve the ability to detect fraud, waste and abuse. the integrated data repository which is intended to provide a single solicit because of data on medicare and medicaid claims and the one per integrity one fpi system the web based portal that is to provide cns said contractors with a single source of access to the data contained in idr as well as tools for analyzing the data. our work examine the extent to which idr had been implemented as well as the cms efforts to identify common measure and

ms. melvin?>> chairman platts, ranking members towns and adidas and members of the subcommittee, think you for inviting me to testify to the ceiling on fraud and improper payments in the medicaid program. fi request fisa testimony will find summaries from the report be issued earlier this year on cms's efforts to protect the integrity of the medicare and medicaid program through the use of information technology. specifically on june, 2011 we've reported on to programs that cms initiated in 2006 to help improve the ability to detect fraud, waste and abuse. the integrated data repository which is intended to provide a single solicit because of data on medicare and medicaid claims and the one per integrity one fpi system the web based portal that is to provide cns said contractors with a single source of access to the data contained in idr as well as tools for analyzing the data. our work examine the extent to which idr had been implemented as well as the cms efforts to identify common measure and