Detecting Fraud news from FierceHealthIT
NewsHHS approves Florida Medicaid waiver to mine claims in search of fraud
Medicare and Medicaid fraud might as well be the unofficial state sport of Florida. After years of trying mostly in vain to rein in some of the criminal activity, Florida officials are going to try Read more...
CMS is first to try federal fraud detection software
Attention anyone who wants to cheat the system out of "meaningful use" dollars and other stimulus funding: CMS is becoming the first federal agency to try out a government-developed analytics program Read more...
CMS to fight Medicare, Medicaid fraud with high-tech 'bounty hunters'
Medicare and Medicaid fraud cost American taxpayers some $54 billion last year. (We've long believed that Medicare fraud is the unofficial state sport of Florida.) CMS has tried many approaches to Read more...
HIMSS10: Sprint CEO Hesse is but one of the keynote stars
We're big fans of the HIMSS keynote sessions, and, as usual, the 2010 edition features some heavy hitters. The conference kicks off Monday at 8 a.m. with an address from Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Read more...
Medicare fraud growing due to design of IT systems
Federal officials are justifiably worried over the costs fraud imposes on the Medicare system. However, it seems that the claims processing systems Medicare has in place are doing little to address Read more...
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