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Big Brother is Watching for Fraud and Abuse

Published on Wed Jul 02, 2014

$9.1 million record recovery by SMP gives you more reason to be wary. Not every person checking for fraud is a government entity. Watch out: Your very own Medicare patients, who are eligible to join the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP), could be looking for patterns that might constitute fraudulent billing or coding trends. SMP is a group of over 5,400 [...]
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