Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Seniors volunteer for this program, which aims to help the OIG detect issues that might constitute fraudulent billing or coding trends. The government recruits different types of people to check for Medicare fraud, but not all of those recruits are attorneys or federal employees. In fact, some of them might be your very own Medicare patients, who are eligible to join the Senior Medicare Patrol, a group of over 4,600 volunteers who are trained to detect fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare system. The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) has been in business since 1997, and during that 12-year period, its members have recovered over $4.5 million for Medicare. In addition, the SMP has been responsible for over $100 million total in savings to the government via Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs attributable to the SMP, according to a May 18, 2009 OIG report entitled "Performance Data for [...]