Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Strengthens
Efforts to Reduce Fraud and Abuse in Medicare, Medicaid
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new CMS initiative and a
proposed regulation to protect the nation’s largest federal health programs from fraud and abuse and further reduce
improper payments through the use of enhanced electronic tools now available. CMS is building on its current
program integrity efforts by implementing new steps to analyze program data to detect improper payments and
potential areas of fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs more quickly and accurately. Read
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