{"id":6461,"date":"2015-09-11T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2015-09-09T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:50:25","slug":"health-care-fraud-we-cant-afford-to-pay-and-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/health-care-fraud-we-cant-afford-to-pay-and-chase\/6461\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Fraud: We can&#8217;t afford to &#8216;pay and chase&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"In June, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced \u201cthe largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.\u201d\u00a0 More than 240 people were arrested and charged with stealing $712 million from Medicare. \u00a0The suspects included 46 doctors, nurses, pharmacy owners and other medical professionals. While this is a huge blow to fraudsters across the country, the federal government must hasten its move away from this type of \u201cpay and chase\u201d model \u2013 where Medicare and Medicaid routinely pay every bill that comes in and investigate cases only when it\u2019s blatantly obvious that something is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/health-care-fraud-we-cant-afford-to-pay-and-chase\/6461\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced \u201cthe largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.\u201d\u00a0 More than 240 people were arrested and charged with stealing $712 million from Medicare. \u00a0The suspects included 46 doctors, nurses, pharmacy owners and other medical professionals. While this is a huge blow to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[148,8,184,30],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-healthcare-analytics","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-predictive-modeling","tag-sas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}