Reducing Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse
By: editor, Anthony L. Johnson
Series: Health care issues, costs and access
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781617615078
Subjects: Medicare fraud; Prevention; Medicare; Collected Works; Legislation & jurisprudence; Fraud; Prevention & control; Health Services Misuse; Organization & administration
Notes: Contains edited, excerpted and augmented editions of Congressional publications.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicare program integrity : activities to protect Medicare from payment errors, fraud, and abuse / Holly Stockdale; title: Health care fraud and abuse laws covering Medicare and Medicaid : an overview / Jennifer Staman; title: Medicare recovery audit contracting : weaknesses remain in addressing vulnerabilities to improper payments, although improvements made to contractor oversight / GAO; title: Medicare Part D : CMS oversight of Part D sponsor's fraud and abuse programs has been limited, but CMS plans oversight expansion / Kathleen M. King; title: Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse : challenges and strategies for preventing improper payments / Kathleen M. King; title: Testimony of Lewis Morris, chief counsel, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human services, before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health and Oversight; title: Statement of Edward N. Siskel, Associate Deputy Attorney General, before the Subcommittee on Health and Oversight, hearing on "reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare"; title: Statement of Kimberly L. Brandt, director, Program Integrity Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, before the Subcommittee on Health and Oversight, hearing on "reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare".; title: Statement of Congressman Peter Roskam, before the Subcommittee on Health and Oversight, hearing on "reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare"; title: Testimony of Congressman Scott Murphy, House Committee on Ways and Means, before the Subcommittee on Health and Oversight, hearing on "reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare"; title: Medicare : improvements needed to address improper payments in home health / GAO; title: Medicare : thousands of Medicare providers abuse the federal tax system / GAO; title: Medicare : covert testing exposes weaknesses in the durable medical equipment supplier screening process / GAO.