Health Care Enforcement Defense Alert: DOJ and HHS Announce Efforts to Obtain Proactive Data Mining Tools to Supplement Anti-Fraud Efforts
12/17/2010
In yet another health-related joint law enforcement initiative, Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced yesterday, December 16th, that they would be seeking to acquire a sophisticated predictive modeling data analysis system. This announcement continues the Obama administration’s commitment to combating health care fraud and abuse, an effort that Congress has supported with increased funding. As part of health care reform, in response to its funding request, the administration received from Congress an additional $350 million to supplement fraud-fighting efforts. Increased technological support for federal health care fraud enforcement efforts, both for detection and prevention, was a priority in the administration’s funding request.
