Medicare: Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Financial Report for Fiscal Year 1997

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the first joint report issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the fiscal year (FY) 1997 deposits to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the allocation of the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) appropriation, focusing on: (1) the amounts deposited to the trust fund and the sources of such amounts; (2) the amounts appropriated from the trust fund for the HCFAC program and the justification for the expenditure of such amounts; (3) expenditures from the trust fund for HCFAC activities not related to Medicare; and (4) any savings to the trust fund, as well as any other savings, resulting from the trust fund for the HCFAC program.