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AHFI Examination Prep CourseHCF Investigator Assumptions - correct answer ✔✔*General knowledge of the Health care Delivery
System
*Health plan policy and procedures relative to the delivery of services
*Able to identify Red Flags, behaviors & indicators of health care fraud schemes
Know applicable federal & state laws related to health care fraud
*Law enforcement & regulatory agencies that have oversight responsibilities for HCF
*Local & regional investigative groups that have similar interests
Fraud, by it's very nature, is decptive. - correct answer ✔✔As such, nobody really knows what the
impact and cost of fraud is. However there are some common industry estimates
Conservative US Healthcare spending in 2015 was $3.2Trillion
Conservative estimate of fraud is 3-5% (means tens of billions of dollars each year)
Estimate of $96 billion -> $320 Billion / year (if we estimate between 5% and 10%)
Anatomy of an investigation - correct answer ✔✔Each fraud case is unique, however, under the surface
of the specific schemes, all HCF investigatons have a common structure, or process.
Anatomy of an investigation - 1) Detection - correct answer ✔✔The process of uncovering potential
fraud waste and abuse utilizing human and technical resources and techniques
,Anatomy of an investigation - 2) Assessment - correct answer ✔✔The primary objective of the
assessment phase is to establish PREDICATION for the continued investigation
Predication - correct answer ✔✔to proclaim; declare; assert
Anatomy of an Investigation - 3) Investigative Strategy - correct answer ✔✔Devoloping an investigative
plan to identify and gather evidence to support the statuatory elements to prove
Anatomy of an investigation - 4) Case Investigation - correct answer ✔✔The process of utilizing legal and
appropriate techniques to prove or disprove the allegations
Antomy of an investigation - 5) Report Writing - correct answer ✔✔The process of documenting the
investigative tasks in a final comprehensive investigative report.
Anatomy of an investigation - 6) Determination of action - correct answer ✔✔Evaluating the totality of
the documented case facts to determine the best action to resolve the investigation.
Anatomy of an investigation - 1) Detection - Case Management - correct answer ✔✔Includes:
*Behavioral & Pattern Analysis
Emergings Schemes - being familiar enough with new schemes to be able to recognize that something is
"off"
"Hot Spots": Know where the "hot-spots" are in the country
The top Red Flags for Health Care Fraud in 2018 - correct answer ✔✔1) Opioids: 12 hotspots (Florida,
Tennessee, Alaska, Texas); focus investigations and prosecuting "pill mills" (pharmacies that improperly
divert and dispense Rx opioid and other opioid-related issues)
2) Home Health Care:
,3) Use of data:
4) Robosigning: Involves a doctor blindly writing Rx or order that authorize care without first making an
individualized determination of medical necessity.
5) Kickbacks:
6) Upcoding: The improper practice of a medical professional billing for a more expensive medical
service than was actually provided to the patient. The DOJ focuses on service-based, location-based or
time-based upcoding
7) Billing for unqualified workers:
Upcoding - correct answer ✔✔The DOJ focuses on service-based, location-based and/or time-based
upcoding
Service-based upcoding: A doctor may perform a simple check-up, but bill for a more extensive
examination or even a surgery
Location-based upcoding: Billing for a procedure that occurred in an operating room when, in fact, it had
occurred in a less-expensive setting such as an office
Time-based-upcoding: When a doctor sees a patient for 10-minutes, but bills for a more expensive 45-
minute consultation.
Robosigning - correct answer ✔✔Involves a doctor blindly writing Rx or order that authorize care
without first making an individualized determination of medical necessity. (Opioids; home health care;
power wheelchairs; sleep studies) **The authorizing medical professional must make a case-by-case
analysis of medical necessity before ordering drugs or services. And importantly, the company should be
able to re-create and affirmatively prove this process was actually used
Billing for unqualified workers - correct answer ✔✔Unqualified or unlicensed workers.
, Clinics using a less qualified worker (such as a P.A.) to render services to a patient, but the services are
billed as if they were provided by a medical professional with a higher reimbursement rate.
Or billing of lower-level medical professionals (physical therapy assistants) who are supposed to be
supervised by a higher-level medical professional (a physical therapist) but operate without supervision
Kickbacks - correct answer ✔✔The payment of kickbacks or other illicit benefits to patients, recruiters
who procure such patients, or even to doctors or other medical professionals..
Look for patients who are "frequent-flyers", or who present with a number of different ailments over
time that seem implausible
Use of data in uncovering fraud - correct answer ✔✔Identifying geographic hotbeds for fraud (top biller
in the country for a specific code is not a good thing);
looking for a disconnect between the size of the medical practice and the volume of billing;
inconguity between the practice's specialty and the types of codes billed;
Rx for high % of opioids
Home Health Fraud - correct answer ✔✔Hot-spots: South Forida, Detroit, TX, IL)
Prescribed by a doctor when the patient is homebound and needs intermittent skilled care.
Watch for MDs who write Rx for home health care when there is no real medical necessity;
Unlicensed workers rendering care;
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