Medicare Program Integrity : Activities to Protect Medicare from Payment Errors, Fraud, and Abuse.

Format:

Book

Government document

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fraud.

Medical laws and legislation.

Medicare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Provides overview of Medicare integrity efforts to protect Medicare from payment errors, fraud, and abuse. Defines "program integrity"; and covers types of activities, organizations, and agencies involved in protecting Medicare integrity on a day-to-day basis. Presents history of Federal funding for Medicare anti-fraud activities, discusses findings from recent studies on program integrity efforts, and addresses current issues.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Medicare Program Integrity

Access Restriction:

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