“… Gott is one of many unscrupulous health care providers put behind bars thanks to the data analytics experts in the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Inspector General.”
“The office has been bringing lawbreakers to justice for years, but it’s recently transformed the way it uses data to uncover fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid by adopting sophisticated analytics tools that tap into troves of information stored across the agency…”
“Today, investigators in Washington and regional offices constantly analyze the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Integrated Data Repository, which contains petabytes of data on patient claims, providers, risk scores and…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS is Using Data to Fight Opioid Abuse, Fraud and Just About Everything Else – By Jack Corrigan, July 5, 2018. Nextgov.
