Industry Notes:
HHS Doubles Senior Medicare Patrol Funding
Published on Wed Sep 08, 2010
You'll have more sets of eyes examining your claims soon -- and they may not be the eyes you would expect. CMS has awarded $9 million in grants to increase Senior Medicare Patrol fraud-fighting programs. "These grants will put more feet on the ground in the fight against Medicare fraud," CMS Administrator Donald Berwick says in a release. "We are concerned about Medicare fraud and activity by criminals seeking to defraud seniors -- and we want to ramp up our local community resources to educate seniors and people with Medicare about how they can help us stop it." The grants target states at high risk of fraud, CMS says. The grants are part of the Department of Health and Human Services' initiative to double the patrol's funding.