Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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CMS' Analytics System Caught $820 Million in Fraud

CMS uses many approaches to catching fraud, and its high-tech analytics system is one of the most lucrative tools for the agency. On July 14, CMS announced that its Fraud Prevention System identified or prevented $820 million in inappropriate payments over a three-year period, with $454 million of that amount in just 2014 alone. The system uses analytics software to [...]
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