Forensics Journal - Stevenson University 2015 | Page 67

FORENSICS JOURNAL

Medicaid and Medicare Fraud,
Waste and Abuse
Lindsay M. Wheatley
The Medicaid and Medicare programs were initially created as part of
President Lyndon B. Johnson and the 89th United States Congress’s
passage of the Social Security Act of 1965 (Stevens & Stevens, 2003,
p. 48). The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office approximates
that federal spending for healthcare totals nearly $1 trillion each
year, thus representing one of the single largest federal budget
expendit