The agency confirmed on Wednesday that the representatives of the billionaire's government efficiency (DOGE) focusing on the Medicare and Medicade Service Center (CMS).
It was unclear which systems Doge had access to, and whether sensitive medical information was part of the effort.
Wall Street Journal Reported in the first half of Wednesday The DOGE AIDES was allowed to access the main payment and contract system.
CMS did not respond to clarified requests.
“CMS has two senior agency veterans leading collaborations with DOGE, including ensuring proper access to CMS systems and technologies. “We have the goal of President Trump. We take a thoughtful approach to see where opportunities for more effective and efficient resource use are found in line with achieving.”
CMS is essentially a federal insurance provider. The agency sets the payment rate of doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies, supervises med care, medicade, pediatric health insurance programs, and affordable care, and provides more than 150 million compensation.
CMS spent more than $ 1.5 trillion in 2024 and spent about 22 % of the federal spending. Lawmakers often say that while years of bipartisan efforts to curb Medicare spending have been met with political backlash, large spending on healthcare programs is filled with fraud and abuse.
The mask confirmed his interest in the health institution on Wednesday, Post to social platform X The Medicare was “a place where big money fraud is occurring.” He provided no evidence.
DOGE AIDES has been incited by the Federal Government as a whole, and has recently managed an institution as a part of the Ministry of Finance and International Development Organization, as part of a duty to reduce at least $ 1 trillion federal expenditures. They demanded very sensitive information, received access, and issued alarms between Democrats and government officials.
The Republican Party mainly supports the movement of Douge and has long been a necessary effort to eliminate fraudulent spending by federal staff.
“Obviously, everyone needs to make private health information private, but I think it is necessary to check where we can be more efficient and effective. House Energy. and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) told reporters Wednesday.
President Trump has named a celebrity doctor and failed to lead a CMS to the Senate candidate Mefmet Osz, but he has not yet been confirmed.
In a statement that announced his choice in November, Trump said Oz would “reduce waste and fraud in the most expensive government agencies in our country.
