Medicare Program Integrity : Activities to Protect Medicare from Payment Errors, Fraud, and Abuse.

Provides overview of Medicare integrity efforts to protect Medicare from payment errors, fraud, and abuse. Defines "program integrity"; and covers types of activities, organizations, and agencies involved in protecting Medicare integrity on a day-to-day basis. Presents history of Federal f...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2008.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Provides overview of Medicare integrity efforts to protect Medicare from payment errors, fraud, and abuse. Defines "program integrity"; and covers types of activities, organizations, and agencies involved in protecting Medicare integrity on a day-to-day basis. Presents history of Federal funding for Medicare anti-fraud activities, discusses findings from recent studies on program integrity efforts, and addresses current issues.
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