On June 15, 2010, Lewis Morris, the Chief Counsel to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), testified to the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding the OIG’s strategy to combat fraud and abuse in the health care system in light of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Morris provided several examples of how PPACA will enhance the OIG’s health care oversight and enforcement activities.

Morris began his testimony with how PPACA will assist in the effective use of data and ensure the integrity of information for purposes of conducting oversight and law enforcement activities. For example, section 6402 of PPACA exempts the OIG from the prohibitions against matching data across programs in the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act and authorizes the OIG to enter into data sharing agreements with the Social Security Administration. In addition, PPACA expands…
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