New patient tools available for fraud prevention
18 August 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working to ensure that correct payments are made to legitimate providers for covered health care services through its fraud prevention initiative. CMS is focused on moving from “pay and chase” recovery operations to a more proactive “prevention and detection” model that will help prevent fraud and abuse before payment is made. With this new approach, CMS aims to:
- prevent fraud and abuse in the first place
- detect fraud and abuse that is taking place
- report suspected fraud and abuse
- recover funds that have been lost to fraud and abuse
Learn more about the fraud prevention initiative by visiting the CMS fraud prevention toolkit. This online resource includes tools that help physicians inform Medicare beneficiaries about how to protect themselves from becoming victims of fraud and ways to report fraud.