| Subject: | United States Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services Announce New Interagency Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team |
| Category: | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
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| Published: | Tue, 26 May 2009 - 11:00 am |
| The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have announced a new interagency Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to combat Medicare fraud. The HEAT team will include senior officials from DOJ and HHS who will build upon and strengthen existing programs to combat fraud while also investing new resources and technology to prevent fraud, waste and abuse before it happens. Efforts will include the... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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