Beware of Medicare "spies". (NH News Notes).Senior sleuths trained by 54 government-sponsored Senior Medicare Patrol Projects have helped recoup almost $4 million for Medicare and reportedly close to $80 million for other payers, according to a DHHS DHHS Department of Health & Human Services (US government) DHHS Dana Hills High School (Dana Point, California) DHHS Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services DHHS Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services memorandum. Since the first projects-began in 1997, nearly 1.1 million Medicare beneficiaries have been educated to be on the lookout for in search of; looking for. See also: Lookout Medicare fraud Medicare fraud Medifraud Medical practice Any unlawful act which results in the inappropriate billing of Medicare for services by a health care provider–eg, physicians, hospitals and affiliated providers. See Medicare. , waste, and abuse, and to report it to federal authorities. The recouped Medicare funds maybe even greater than $4 million, since the projects neither track seniors who call the OIG Noun 1. OIG - the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission Office of Inspector General independent agency - an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments fraud hotline (or other contacts) nor monitor the results of Medicare beneficiaries' increased scrutiny of their bills. For more details, visit http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-02-03-00120.pdf. |
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