The World Health Care Congress Leadership Summit

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If you want to avoid unnecessary litigation fees in 2010, there are some statistics you should be aware of:

Fact: "On June 24, 2009, we announced seven indictments charging 53 people with submitting more than $50 million in false bills to Medicare in schemes involving physical, occupational, and infusion therapy." ⁽¹⁾
Fact: "On July 29, 2009, 32 people were indicted in Houston for schemes to submit more than $16 million in false Medicare claims for durable medical equipment." ⁽¹⁾
Fact: "On October 21,2009, we announced indictments of another 20 defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, who were charged for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving power wheelchairs, orthotics and hospital beds that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program." ⁽¹⁾
Fact: "Also in October, McAllen Hospitals agreed to pay the United States $27.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute between 1999 and 2006, by paying illegal compensation to doctors in order to induce them to refer patients to hospitals within the group." ⁽¹⁾
Fact: "And, just two weeks ago, 13 defendants were indicted in Detroit for a home health care scheme to defraud the Medicare program of more than $14.5 million." ⁽¹⁾

Don't let your organization become a poster-child for health care fraud. It's all in the numbers, fraudulent activities could cost your organization millions of dollars in settlement and court fees, not to mention bad publicity. In this market, can you afford to lose money and customers?

The World Congress Leadership Summit on Health Care Fraud and Abuse is your one source for up-to-the-minute updates on regulation adherence, fraud investigation, abuse reduction, identity theft protection, appropriate physician coding, compliance and more. Now you can discover for yourself…

What makes The Leadership Summit on Health Care Fraud and Abuse so valuable?

With your registration, you'll enjoy these, the top 10 reasons you can't afford to miss this event…

F IND out what the FBI and OIG are looking for during an investigation and how to prepare your Fraud Unit in the event of an audit or investigation
R ECOGNIZE how marketing and sales initiatives can be considered unethical and investigated
A NALYZE case studies on identifying and investigating current fraud schemes from acquisition and ancillary fraud to marketing and up-coding abuse
U NCOVER best practices for recognizing, reviewing and referring potential fraud cases
D ETECT Fraud and Abuse Patterns – how you do it, what action you take to ensure you reduce wasteful spending

AND

A PPROACHES to mitigating risk of fraudulent activities through prompt privacy breach response tools
B USINESS case studies on fraud and abuse from Independent Blue Cross, Kaiser Permanente, Universal American and many more
U SEABLE legal information to align contracts, policies and audits to detect overpayment and demand repayment
S UCCESSFUL anti-fraud program components: what you must to know for your organization and referring potential fraud cases
E XPLORE technology tools and techniques to help identify patterns of fraud, waste and abuse ensure you reduce wasteful spending

The best part of our executive education is that you learn from and network with the experts, and the knowledge you gain is more practical and less theoretical - it is information you can use immediately to do your job faster, easier and better.

This summit is filling up fast. That is why I encourage you to explore all the benefits of attending. Or call: 800-767-9499.

Sincerely,

Melynda Hilliard
Summit Manager
World Congress

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⁽¹⁾SOURCE: Incoming Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler.
Remarks for HHS-DOJ Health Care Fraud Summit. January 28, 2010.

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