White House Steps Up Efforts to Curb Health Care Fraud
According to a PR Newswire article today, the White House intends to significantly increase efforts to curb health care fraud and abuse. At the National Summit on Health Care Fraud this week, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius announced that President Obama's FY 2011 Budget is expected to include historic support for anti-fraud efforts focusing on programs that have successful in preventing fraud and reducing payment errors. For physicians, this is just one more warning that it's is time to get your compliance efforts in order.
