Healthcare has always been a stressful business. The COVID-19 pandemic and now the latest wave of infections wrought by the Delta variant have put the work of providers, insurers, and government healthcare program administrators squarely in the spotlight.
That makes preventing and investigating healthcare fraud tougher and more important than ever. Fraudulent claims, which beset Medicare and Medicaid in particular, cost tens of billions of dollars annually. That’s money stolen from patients, insurers, health systems, or taxpayers (or any combination of these). And that’s money that could be used to deliver quality care.
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