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Elder
Rights & Resources
Preventing Fraud & Abuse
The Administration on Aging (AoA) is dedicated to promoting consumer
awareness, preventing elder victimization, and working to implement
community partnerships to prevent Medicare and Medicaid fraud,
error, and abuse. By informing and training senior volunteers,
aging network personnel, and health care providers, AoA wants
to make older Americans and their advocates better health care
consumers.
The mission of AoA’s Anti Fraud and Abuse Team is to serve
as the agency’s focal point for coordinating, implementing,
monitoring, expanding, evaluating, and promoting efforts to provide
consumer information and protection designed to detect, prevent
and report error, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid
programs.
Senior Medicare Patrols
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Since 1997, the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) has worked
in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services’
Office of Inspector General, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration),
the Department of Justice, community-based grantees, retired professionals,
service and health care providers, AARP, and other interested
individuals and organizations to address this serious national
problem.
In the initial phase of this initiative, known as ORT, $23 was
returned in improper payments, fines and settlements for every
dollar spent on the effort.
Today, AoA provides grants to community-based agencies in nearly
every state to train volunteers how to educate Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries and their families how to protect their Medicare
number as they would their credit card, how to take a more active
role in protecting their health care programs, and how to detect
and report potential instances of error, fraud, and abuse.
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