$100 billion. It’s a huge number but that’s the total amount the Trump Administration believes it can find in fraud across Medicaid and Medicare by 2029. The person helping lead that initiative is Stephanie Carlton, the deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She’s now directing efforts to make CMS an “AI […]<br><br>The post Can AI Find Medicaid Fraud? That’s the Mission of Stephanie Carlton, Dep. Admin, CMS appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

Can AI Find Medicaid Fraud? That’s the Mission of Stephanie Carlton, Dep. Admin, CMS

Conversations on Health Care

Recorded on location at Aspen Ideas Health in Aspen, Colorado. Margaret, I'm not sure the general public knows that Medicare and Medicaid account for roughly $2 trillion in federal spending each year. And our guest is charged with ensuring patients and taxpayers are getting their money's worth. And she's using new technology to help in her effort.

We want to go find $100 billion in fraud across the programs that we oversee and pay for. We think that is achievable. That's by the end of this administration. And again, the team is building incredible tools to be able to go and do that. Stephanie Carlton is the Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And we are so delighted that she is joining us here today at Aspen Ideas Health.

And it comes back to Secretary Kennedy's vision on like, hey, what we're doing now, the incumbents by themselves, it's not working on the outcomes that we deserve or the affordability that we need. This is Conversations on Health Care. Well, Stephanie Carlton, welcome to Conversations on Health Care.

Welcome back. We enjoyed our conversation last year with you. And there's some news about you. You continue to be Deputy Administrator. You've actually been given an incredibly new role in terms of artificial intelligence and really quality indicators. Tell us more about the new assignment. Yeah, well, it is a huge party for Dr. Oz and for his boss, Secretary Kennedy, and for his boss, President Trump,

to think about how do we use technology to help Americans get healthier and to drive down the cost of health care. And I think we are at just this incredible inflection moment in our history about how technology can help Americans do that.

Can AI Find Medicaid Fraud? That’s the Mission of Stephanie Carlton, Dep. Admin, CMS

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Can AI Find Medicaid Fraud? That’s the Mission of Stephanie Carlton, Dep. Admin, CMS

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.