Reducing Government Budget Deficits by Attacking Fraud, Waste and Abuse

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Government fraud is at an all-time high – and growing rapidly. Given the new nature of fraud, traditional, program-focused methods of detecting fraud are insufficient. Modern-day fraud activities often span multiple departments, making fraud an enterprise problem – not just a program-specific problem. But what if state governments could improve budgets by implementing enterprise level, state-of-the-art fraud detection programs designed to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated perpetrators?