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Expect more scrutiny of your claims, thanks to President Obama directing HHS

Expect more scrutiny of your claims, thanks to President Obama directing HHS to cut Medicare's improper payment rate in half by 2012. The president wants the rate measured by the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program to be reduced as part of HHS's overall crackdown on Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse, HHS says in a June 8 letter to state attorneys general. HHS and the Department of Justice also will hold regional fraud prevention summits that will consist of panels and training sessions for federal and state officials, law enforcement, providers, caregivers, seniors, etc. DOJ has also asked all 93 U.S. Attorneys "to convene regular health care fraud task force meetings to facilitate the exchange of information with partners in the public and private sector, and to help coordinate anti-fraud efforts," the letter continues. Those meetings will start taking place by August. More enforcement ahead: "We will use the new [...]
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