Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

The Obama administration obviously believes an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and is taking innovative steps to protect vital healthcare dollars by uniting public and private organizations to fight fraud.Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder "announced the launch of a ground-breaking partnership among the federal government, State officials, several leading private health insurance organizations, and other health care anti-fraud groups to prevent health care fraud," according to a July 26 press release.The idea is to share information and best practices via this partnership "to improve detection and prevent payment of fraudulent health care billings," it said. The goal is to dig out and prevent scams that impact a number of public and private payers. "The partnership will enable those on the front lines of industry anti-fraud efforts to share their insights more easily with investigators, prosecutors, policymakers and other [...]