{"id":57,"date":"2010-12-16T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:12:03","slug":"cms-will-acquire-new-tools-to-prevent-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/12\/16\/cms-will-acquire-new-tools-to-prevent-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Will Acquire New Tools to Prevent Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 16, 2010, at the regional health care fraud prevention summit in Boston, Massachusetts, HHS Secretary Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that CMS will issue a solicitation for new analytic tools to prevent fraud in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP. In its press release on the subject, HHS stated that the tools will &#8220;integrate many of the Agency&#8217;s pilot programs into the National Fraud Prevention Program and complement the work of the joint HHS and Department of Justice Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT).&#8221; The tools will be designed to prevent fraudulent payments before they occur, including through predictive modeling and identification of real-time trends by tracking billing patterns and other information.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full press release, please go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2010pres\/12\/20101216a.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2010pres\/12\/20101216a.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 16, 2010, at the regional health care fraud prevention summit in Boston, Massachusetts, HHS Secretary Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that CMS will issue a solicitation for new analytic tools to prevent fraud in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP. In its press release on the subject, HHS stated that the tools will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/12\/16\/cms-will-acquire-new-tools-to-prevent-fraud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CMS Will Acquire New Tools to Prevent Fraud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,7,39,31,33,9,10,32],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-chip","tag-cms","tag-fraud","tag-hospitals-reform-updates","tag-long-term-care-reform-updates","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-physicians-reform-updates"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}