Officials highlighted a number of initiatives that have helped both prevent health-care fraud and recoup federal money. Those steps included increased funding to expand the Medicare Fraud Strike Force to nine geographic territories. <\/p>\n
Authorities said efforts by the strike force and other initiatives led the Justice Department to open 924 new criminal health-care fraud probes in fiscal 2014. Federal prosecutors actually filed criminal charges in nearly 500 cases, involving more than 800 defendants, and 734 defendants were convicted of health-care-related fraud that year. <\/p>\n
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Officials also noted how the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use new screening requirements to revalidate all 1.5 million Medicare suppliers and providers. <\/p>\n
\"As a result of this and other proactive initiatives, CMS has deactivated 470,000 enrollments and revoked nearly 28,000 enrollments to prevent certain providers from re-enrolling and billing the Medicare program,\" officials said. \"Both of these actions immediately stop billing.\" <\/p>\n
CMS also continued a temporary moratorium on the enrollment of new home health and ambulance service providers in six metropolitan areas considered \"hot spots\" for health fraud: Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit and Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
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