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The Mixed-Up Audit MICs

By Frank Sheeder on Posted in CMS, Enforcement, Government Initiatives, Medicaid, OIG, RACs, Uncategorized, Waste

The Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) recently released a report entitled Early Assessment of Audit Medicaid Integrity Contractors.  The OIG assessed the efforts of the Audit Medicaid Integrity Contractors (Audit MIC) to identify overpayments in Medicaid.  The findings show that the audit process was broken and resulted in… Continue Reading

President Places Fraud and Abuse Enforcement as a Cornerstone of Reform

By Frank Sheeder on Posted in Administration, Fraud, Medicaid, Medicare, Waste

President Obama mentioned fraud, waste, and abuse several times in his September 9, 2009 speech.  Interestingly, this is the same approach that Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno took when their 1993 healthcare reform efforts did not take root.  This isn’t a political statement — just a factual observation.  We’ll cover that soon in… Continue Reading