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GAO: Standardizing prepayment audits could save millions

By Joe Carlson | December 10, 2012 | Basic Web

The GAO says the CMS could potentially save tens of millions of dollars a year by standardizing how Medicare payments to hospitals and physicians are audited before the bills are paid.
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HHS inspector general: Medicare EHR program needs better oversight

By Joseph Conn | November 29, 2012 | Basic Web

The CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology need to tighten up oversight of the Medicare EHR incentive payment program, says HHS' inspector general's office.
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OIG sets record in funds recovered

By Joe Carlson | November 27, 2012 | Basic Web

HHS' office of the inspector general this year continued its steady march upward in the number of new criminal cases it helped file and the amount of misspent federal healthcare dollars it recovered.
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Feds announce fraud charges against 91

By Joe Carlson | October 04, 2012 | Basic Web

More than 500 law-enforcement officials have fanned out across the country in the past 24 hours to execute arrests in a coordinated healthcare fraud takedown involving charges against 91 people in seven cities for false Medicare billings allegedly totaling $429 million.
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Holding them accountable | HHS targets former officials for company's alleged role in patients' deaths

By Joe Carlson | September 29, 2012 | Print Magazine

After years of investigations and a brief stint in prison, Thomas Higgins will soon learn whether the federal government plans to essentially bar him from his career as a healthcare executive for crimes that he says he didn't know about while they were happening.
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2012 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (text list)

By Modern Healthcare | August 25, 2012

This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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CDC warned of prevention-fund grant misuse

By Rich Daly | July 10, 2012 | Basic Web

Prevention fund recipients apparently broke federal laws and used some of those funds for political lobbying, according to the HHS inspector general.
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Levinson touts anti-fraud efforts

By Joe Carlson | May 30, 2012 | Basic Web

In a report to Congress, HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson said officials in his office expect to recover $1.2 billion from audits and investigations reported during the first half of 2012.
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Levinson touts anti-fraud efforts in midyear report

By Joe Carlson | May 29, 2012 | Basic Web

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Compliance officers on the brink

By Joe Carlson | May 10, 2012 | Basic Web

In Las Vegas last week, surrounded by thousands of healthcare compliance professionals in Caesars Palace, I couldn't help but call to mind that famous bass line from the 1981 song “Under Pressure” (The original version by Queen and David Bowie, that is, not the sample.)
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