DOGE team searching CMS payment system for fraud, WSJ reports

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team has been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have gotten access to payment and contracting systems, Anna Wilde Mathews and Liz Essley Whyte of Wall Street Journal report, citing people familiar with the matter. The DOGE representatives have been on site at the agency’s offices this week, looking at the systems’ technology to try to uncover consider fraud or waste, sources told the Journal. DOGE representatives are also examining CMS’s organizational design and how it is staffed, the people added. Publicly traded companies in the healthcare insurance space include CVS Health (CVS), Centene (CNC), Cigna (CI), Elevance Health (ELV), Humana (HUM), Molina Healthcare (MOH) and UnitedHealth (UNH).