Investigators say ex-Medicare chief should repay salary

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Investigators Say Ex-Medicare Chief Should Repay Salary
By ROBERT PEAR

Published: September 7, 2004

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — The Bush administration illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare law, and as a penalty, the former head of the Medicare agency, Thomas A. Scully, must repay seven months of his salary to the government, federal investigators said today.

The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said that Mr. Scully had threatened to fire the chief Medicare actuary in violation of an explicit provision of federal appropriations law.

Accordingly, they said, federal money could not be used to pay Mr. Scully's salary after he began making the threats to the actuary in May 2003.

The conclusion was reached in a formal legal opinion by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress formerly known as the General Accounting Office.



Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/health/07CND-MEDICA.html?hp

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