News of the Executive Vice President of an insurance brokerage firm pleading guilty in a $133.9M Affordable Care Act fraud scheme underscores the urgent need for strong fraud prevention. The…
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Four Schemes to be Wary of Amid Soaring COVID-19 Fraud Reports
While combating fraud, waste, and abuse is a federal initiative upheld by each state, administrators achieve this through various means. Some state OIGs report that their work is primarily focused…
Contact Tracing 101: 5 Quick Facts on Our Most Effective Tool to #flattenthecurve
What is Contact Tracing? Contact Tracing is not new. It has been used to control infectious disease for decades. Contact Tracing is one of the oldest public health tactics and…
Best Practices for Conducting Healthcare Fraud Investigation Interviews
Healthcare Fraud Investigators provide a valuable resource in the fraud analysis process. They perform in-depth evaluation and analysis of potential fraud cases and requests for information using claims and other…
Using the CIGIE Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation
It is important for every industry to have a framework of quality standards by which to measure performance and to establish credibility. Most people have heard of the Yellow Book,…
Healthcare Secret Shopping: An Effective Tool for Detecting Fraud and Abuse
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) made headlines recently when sharing news that 11 of 12 fictitious applicants obtained coverage for health insurance through the Federal marketplace. GAO targeted the Federal…
Ambulance Billing Fraud and False Claims
Medicare ambulance claims, just like everything involved with Medicare, must meet certain requirements to be considered valid ambulance transport claims. The main factor is the transport must be considered “medically…
Electronic Health Record Challenges: A Look at EHR Fraud, Security Issues, & Adoption Barriers
Since the late 20th to early 21st century, reports such as “To Err is Human” by the Institute of Medicine have been published and have advocated the adoption of electronic…
Medicaid Dental Fraud, Waste and Abuse Reporting
OIG has just released the last in a series of four Medicaid dental fraud reports. The reports identified dentists and orthodontists with questionable billing practices in New York, Louisiana, Indiana,…
Identifying Fraud is Not Always Easy: Analyzing State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Reports
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a data chart offering fiscal year (FY) 2014 statistical data for the Medicaid Fraud Control…
Medicaid Managed Care Audits Pay Off…In the Long Run
In May 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report calling for increased oversight of Medicaid managed care spending (the report can be found here). GAO reported that “Most…
Improving Healthcare Error Reporting In Healthcare Audits
The purpose of this paper is to offer a technique to more clearly and fully describe healthcare errors detected in audits, which can lead to improved return on investment (ROI)…
Evaluations Have Standards Too: An Introduction to Government Evaluation Standards
A few years ago, one of our team members served as the masters of ceremonies at a training program for individuals interested in government evaluation. He periodically mentioned the Blue…
