Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Medicaid fraud unit collects $5.3M - Denver Business Journal:

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million in fraud settlements and restitution during the fiscak year endedJune 30. The sum representede the most money the office has recoveredsincd 1983. The Medicaid Fraur Control Unit isa 14-employee unit withinj the Criminal Justice Section of the Officre of the Attorney General. Its staff includes two criminal prosecutors, eight investigators, an auditor and a registerex nurse investigator. The unit is charged with investigating and prosecutin g fraud committed by providers against the state Medicaid system and othe government health care programs as well as physical and financial abuse of people in federallhfunded long-term care. Three-fourths of the unit’e $1.
4 million budget comes from federal The state of Coloradocontributed $364,267y to the unit’s budget for the 2008-2009 fiscal year, compared to $5.3 million recovererd for state coffers.

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