Medicare’s Modernization Effort Is Aimed at Fraud Payments

Medicare is working to modernize its claims system in part to better detect fraudulent payments, the program’s director, Chris Klomp, said Thursday.

Klomp, who also serves as senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said that traditional Medicare currently processes $1.5 billion claims daily in a system built on programming code from the late 1950s and 1960s.

“It makes it very difficult to understand what we’re spending money on, to whom we’re sending that money,” he told Bloomberg Government in an interview at the Bold Bets Healthcare Summit.

Klomp said he told Congress that updating ...