tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 9

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•Medicare is nearly halfway finished with naming its new fraud-fighting contractors. The third Zone Program Integrity Contract --" or (ZPIC) --" Rockville, Md.-based AdvanceMed Corp., will cover Zone 5: West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina,South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. AdvanceMed is currently a Program Safeguard Contractor for 15 states and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corp. Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is awarding ZPIC contracts in seven zones. ZPICs will take over PSCs' program integrity functions.CMS already has announced the contracts for zones four and seven...

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