The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has chosen Performant Financial Corp. as its Commercial Repayment Center contractor to replace CGI Federal.

The announcement of a new CRC contractor comes after CMS said in an August report that the CRC had recovered $106 million in fiscal year 2016 out of $244 million in payments identified as owed to Medicare. The amount was a decrease from $150 million recovered in fiscal year 2015 despite the expanded pool of payers for CRC to pursue.

Daniel Anders, chief compliance officer for Tower MSA Partners, compared the non-group recovery amount to the billions of dollars spent each year on workers’ comp medical benefits.

“When you consider that the CRC’s authority to recover on behalf of Medicare encompasses all non-group health plans who have accepted responsibility for injury-related medicals, $6 million seems fairly small,” Anders said on Tuesday.

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