tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 22

COMPLIANCE: Senior Medicare Patrol Recovered $4.5 Million By Watching For Fraud And Abuse

Seniors volunteer for this program, which aims to help the OIG detect issues that might constitute fraudulent billing or coding trends. The government recruits different types of people to check for Medicare fraud, but not all of those recruits are attorneys or federal employees. In fact, some of them might be your very own Medicare patients, who are eligible to join the Senior Medicare Patrol, a group of over 4,600 volunteers who are trained to detect fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare system. The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) has been in business since 1997, and during that...

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