tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 20
Compliance: In 2009, Senior Medicare Patrol Project Collected Triple Its 2008 Amount
Despite fewer volunteers, the project continued full steam ahead into 2010.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 (SMP), a group of over 4,400 volunteers who are trained to detect fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare system.Last year, the government brought in $76,176 that it attributed to the SMP, which was a more than three-fold increase over the...
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