Advance health care fraud prevention and enforcement legislation to provide stable resources for preventing, detecting, and prosecuting fraud in federal health programs.

Chuck Grassley · Iowa · Republican

policy impact 0.78 specificity 0.82 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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will continue working to ensure all the anti-fraud tools in the federal arsenal are razor sharp

Grassley committed to continuing work on anti-fraud tools and described his bipartisan Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act as strengthening federal health-program fraud prevention and prosecution resources.

Q&A: Fraud Drives Up Healthcare Costs
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Evidence

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S. 5326 was introduced by Sen. Cortez Masto for herself, Chuck Grassley, Ron Wyden, and Mike Crapo. The bill amends HCFAC funding levels for HHS/DOJ, HHS OIG, FBI, the Medicare Integrity Program, and the Medicare-Medicaid Data Match Program for FY2027-FY2029, with inflation-based increases after FY2029, and authorizes use of funds to detect or prosecute health care fraud and abuse.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Grassley is an original cosponsor of legislation directly matching the commitment: it would provide multi-year and inflation-adjusted resources for federal health care fraud prevention, detection, and prosecution. This is concrete legislative effort, but the text is only an introduced bill, not enacted law.

partial same_term A for effort

S. 5326 (IS) - Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act bill text
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GovInfo lists the last action date as August 6, 2026: the bill was introduced, read twice, and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance. It identifies Chuck Grassley as a cosponsor and the bill as introduced in the 119th Congress, 2nd session.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No official action in the September 8-10, 2026 lookback window shows enactment, passage, markup, or a vote. The latest official status remains referral to committee, so the commitment is still unresolved rather than delivered.

unresolved same_term A for effort

GovInfo content details for S. 5326 - Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act
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Grassley was an original cosponsor of S. 5326, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act, introduced on August 6, 2026. The bill directly matches the promise by proposing multi-year and inflation-adjusted HCFAC and related program integrity funding for detecting, preventing, and prosecuting fraud in federal health programs. However, the latest status shows only introduction and referral to the Senate Finance Committee, with no passage or enactment by September 10, 2026. Because Grassley is still in the same Senate term and the legislation remains pending, the promise is not yet delivered but has a serious same-term effort.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%