Senior ‘fraud-buster’ program to go nationwide
June 28, 1999
Senior fraud-buster’ program to go nationwide
A Medicare anti-fraud unit that uses senior citizens to uncover billing problems has proven so popular at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the agency is pumping another $7 million into the program and expanding it almost nationwide. All told, HHS will hand out 41 grants to help recruit and train retired professionals to identify waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid, the agency announced last week.
The Senior Medicare Patrol Project grants, as they are called, include 29 new and 12 renewed grants that will be distributed among 39 states. The grants are designed to train a volunteer army of retired professionals including physicians, nurses, accountants, law enforcement personnel, and attorneys, to work with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to spot overbilling and overcharging.
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