Obama administration officials made the announcement at their fourth regional health care fraud prevention summit, held in Boston.
Following the summit, CMS asked for state-of-the-art fraud fighting analytic tools to help the agency pinpoint potentially wasteful, abusive or fraudulent payments before they occur. Such tools would integrate various federal pilot programs into the National Fraud Prevention Program and complement the work of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, jointly run by HHS and the Department of Justice.
Read the HHS release on healthcare fraud.
Read more coverage on healthcare fraud:
– St. John’s Mercy Health System and St. John’s Health System Settle Fraud Allegations for $2.2M
– Trial Begins Over Allegations Former Archbold Medical Center’s President Committed Medicaid Fraud
– California’s El Centro Regional Medical Center to Pay $2.2M to Settle Medicare Fraud Allegations
