Feds open second anti-fraud field office
The federal government's second Medicare anti-fraud field office will be located in New Orleans, the Health Care Financing Administration announced in February.
The New Orleans office follows on the heels of the successful Miami field office. As in Miami, investigators will work with federal and state programs, law enforcement, private insurers, and consumer advocacy groups to ferret out, prosecute, and help prevent Medicare fraud and abuse.
Opened as part of the expansion of Operation Restore Trust, which was launched by President Clinton in May 1995, the Louisiana field office will help coordinate anti-fraud efforts in other states, including Texas.
AIC Conference Inc., an organizer of training courses and conferences in health care, will hold Advanced Healthcare Collections and Receivables Capture Under Managed Care, in Atlanta, May 18-19. For more information call (212) 952-1899 or (800) 409-4242.
The American Health Information Management Association and the Society for Clinical Coding, an affiliated organization, will hold Global Perspectives on Data Quality and Coding, July 28-30 in Washington, DC. The conference will offer presentations by health information management professionals from the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. For information or to register call (312) 787-2672.
The MIS Training Institute will hold the Healthcare Information Security Conference and Expo Sept. 14-18 in Chicago. Call (508) 879-7999 for information about the conference.
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