This bill requires the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to provide quarterly reports on Medicare and Medicaid fraud to four congressional committees for two years after the law takes effect. Each report must include details on the number of fraud investigations conducted, criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits filed, the dollar amounts involved, specific charges alleged, and the number of individuals and entities barred from participating in federal health care programs due to fraud convictions. The reporting requirement begins within three months of the law's enactment and continues every three months for two years. The legislation does not authorize any new funding and instead requires the Inspector General to use existing budget resources to compile and submit these reports, making it a transparency measure aimed at tracking federal efforts to combat healthcare program fraud.
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