Prevent Medicare Fraud with the CMS Fraud Prevention Toolkit

The Affordable Care Act provides additional resources to enable the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand efforts to prevent and fight fraud, waste, and abuse. The CMS Fraud Prevention Initiative aims to ensure that correct payments are made to legitimate providers for covered appropriate and reasonable services in all federal health care programs. Fraud prevention efforts focus on moving CMS beyond its former “pay and chase” recovery operations to a more proactive “prevention and detection” model that will help prevent fraud and abuse before payment is made. Many of these new initiatives acknowledge that the first and best line of defense against fraud remains the health care consumer. You can help by making sure that Medicare beneficiaries have the information they need to identify and report suspected fraud. This information is available in the CMS Fraud Prevention Toolkit on the web.


Get the toolkit here: https://www.cms.gov/Partnerships/04_FraudPreventionToolkit.asp#TopOfPage
 
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