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Attorney General & HHS Secretary Send Letter to States on New Outreach and Education Efforts to Combat Medicare Fraud

By Robert David, Esq.

WASHINGTON (June 8, 2010) ? Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius have sent a letter to state attorneys general urging them to work with HHS and federal, state and local law enforcement officials to mount a substantial outreach campaign, beginning this summer, to educate seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries about how to prevent scams and fraud. The outreach campaign is another step in the ongoing work of HEAT - the Health Care Fraud Prevention Enforcement Action Team, a cabinet-level initiative launch by the Justice Department and HHS in May 2009. For more on HEAT, click: here. "We are heading into the week when our first tax-free $250 donut hole rebate checks will be mailed out to Medicare beneficiaries who have fallen into the coverage gap...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).