Medicaid Fraud Control Units play an important, if often overlooked, role in the Government’s continuing effort to control program, fraud and abuse. The recently released FY 2015 report sheds light on the work of the Units as well as confirms trends seen by other enforcement agencies.
Life science compliance officers are accustomed to reviewing the OIG’s annual work plans and statistics for insights on how to improve company compliance programs. However, the work of the state Medicaid Fraud Control Units (“MFCU”) has mostly gone unnoticed. With the recent trend to more local regulatory intervention, we thought it was important to take a look at the MFCUs’ activities.
Read Full Article in the November 2016 Issue of Life Science Compliance Update