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DOJ Recovers $2.9B

Published on Wed Nov 16, 2011

The Departments of Health and Human Services and Justice have a lot of reasons to ramp up their fraud-busting efforts -- 2.9 billion of them. And the feds consider home care a major risk area. The DOJ recovered $2.9 billion in health care fraud in 2011, it reports. The dollar figure "was driven in part by unprecedented cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to detect and halt fraud earlier," says a release from Vice President Joe Biden. "Specifically, the Obama Administration has greatly expanded the use of Medicare Fraud Strike Forces... The teams monitor Medicare data in real time and work together to prosecute fraud much more quickly than before. It now often takes months, not years, to bring a case to resolution." The strike force teams have seen a big jump in ROI in a short time. "In 2008, they brought cases [...]
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