The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been able to save billions of dollars in less than a year by applying artificial intelligence to tackle duplicative contracts and fraudulent claims, according to Kim Brandt, deputy administrator and chief operating officer at CMS, who spoke at the Nextgov/FCW Fed Tech Priorities summit on Feb. 18. “Within the first year [of using AI], to be able to get rid of 90% of some of these potentially bad actors, it's a huge thing for us,” Brandt said. Although Brandt said that AI stands to further help the agency in more ways, she isn’t ready to take the human out of the loop yet, asserting that there is “no replication for having that.”
Author: Alexandra Kelley
Published at: 2026-02-24 22:30:00
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