Thomson Healthcare Selected by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Help Detect Medicaid Overpayments
28 February 2008 - 2:26AM
PR Newswire (US)
STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Thomson
Healthcare (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) umbrella contract under CMS' Medicaid Integrity
Program's Review of Providers procurement. Under this umbrella
award, Thomson Healthcare will be eligible to compete for the
awarding of a task order to assist CMS Medicaid program integrity
efforts by reviewing the actions of Medicaid providers to identify
potentially fraudulent Medicaid payments. Fraud, waste, and abuse
will be detected by analyzing Medicaid claims and forwarding fraud
leads to the Medicaid Integrity Program's Audit of Providers
contractors, which will be tasked by CMS to conduct audits of the
providers. Thomson Healthcare currently supports 17 state Medicaid
agencies, CMS One Program Integrity (One PI), CMS Program Safeguard
Contractor (PSC), CMS Medicare Drug Integrity Contractor (MEDIC),
and CMS Part A and Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor (A/B
MAC) programs. Thomson does this by providing decision support
solutions including business intelligence applications, analytic
and reporting capabilities, fraud and abuse detection and
investigation, analytic database development, data warehousing,
data mining, data matching and analysis, financial analysis,
quality measurement, provider profiling, patient health records,
patient information and activation tools, consulting, and custom
research. "We are excited about the opportunity to use our best in
class decision support capabilities to assist CMS with detection
and investigation of healthcare fraud, waste and abuse", said Pate
McCartney, Thomson Healthcare vice president and general manager
for federal and state. "We are confident our abilities will help
CMS meet their program objectives." About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support
solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry
improve clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare
products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, health
plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies manage the
cost and improve the quality of healthcare. Thomson Healthcare is a
part of The Thomson Corporation, a provider of value-added
information, software tools and applications to professionals in
the fields of healthcare, law, tax, accounting, scientific
research, and financial services. The Corporation's common shares
are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC;
TSX: TOC). For more information, visit
(http://www.thomsonhealthcare.com/). DATASOURCE: Thomson Healthcare
CONTACT: David Wilkins of Thomson Healthcare, +1-734-913-3397, Web
site: http://www.thomsonhealthcare.com/
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