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AHIP TRAINING Medicare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Training QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2025/2026) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

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  • October 22, 2024
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AHIP TRAINING Medicare Fraud,
Waste, and Abuse Training

Medicare plan means - ANSA MA plan, MA-PD plan or PDP

Subcontractor approach - ANS**An man or woman or entity that offers services on behalf of
a Medicare plan sponsor. This consists of people and businesses with DIRECT courting with
the plan sponsor or people or corporations with INDIRECT courting, which includes an agent
who has a agreement with an corporation or filed advertising and marketing business
enterprise that contract with a Medicare plan.

FWA Training: A compliance application aspect - ANS**ALL Medicare plans are required to
have strong programs to assure compliance by using plan employees an subcontractors with
all applicable laws, policies and program steering.
**One required thing of a compliance application is a FWA application to perceive and cope
with issues of compliance with FWA.
**It is important to keep in mind that ALL Medicare plan sponsor personnel and
subcontractors are accountable for complying with all relevant Medicare requirements, even
supposing loss of compliance may not be viewed as FWA,

FWA: Why participate inside the education - ANS**Fraud, waste and abuse impacts all
people who gets or is predicated on healthcare inside the US.
**The reason of this training is to help you locate, correct and prevent FWA and your help is
wanted. You are a part of the answer!
**As a subcontractor to or an worker of a Medicare plan, you are required to participate in
FWA education.

FWA: Combating: A federal precedence - ANS**Important priority for the Federal
Government.
**CMS, the Federal employer answerable for administering those programs, takes its role in
main anti-fraud efforts very severely and has issued strict requirements for the ones
concerned in providing MA and Medicare Part D insurance.
**The workplace of Inspector General, a sister company to CMS inside the US Department
of Health and Human Services , is also actively concerned in anti-fraud efforts.

Steps by way of Medicare plans to Combat FWA - ANS--The established order and
operation of unique research devices (SIU) or other present departments that perform an
internal investigation characteristic
--The analysis of claims statistics
--Collaboration with law enforcement corporations
--Adherence to rules set forth by CMS concerning efforts to perceive and prevent fraud,
waste and abuse.

, CMS Anti-FWA necessities for Medicare plans - ANS--Actively searching for to prevent
fraud, waste and abuse
--Detect and investigate suspected FWA
--Implement corrective motion when instances of FWA are uncovered
--Have a gadget in vicinity 24 hrs per day for personnel and subcontractors to voluntarily,
and confidentially document suspected FWA or misconduct associated with the MA and Part
D applications

CMS FWA schooling necessities for a Sponsor's Employees - ANS**CMS requires Medicare
plan sponsors to offer training in FWA to their personnel involved in Medicare plan work.
**This schooling should arise within 90 days of lease and yearly thereafter.

CMS FWA training requirements: Agents, Brokers and different Subcontractors - ANS**The
FWA education need to be acquired no longer simplest through Medicare plan sponsor
employees but also with the aid of subcontractors and their employees who're beneath
settlement to provide fitness or administrative offerings. The EXCEPTIONS are limited to:
***accredited providers of DME, prosthetics, orthotics, and substances (DMEPOS)
***Healthcare vendors who are enrolled in Medicare Part A/B

CMS FWA education necessities: Agents, Brokers and other Subcontractors
Those required to take the education consisting of, but not restricted to: - ANS--Insurance
agents, agents as well as personnel of groups and subject marketing groups which might be
acting offerings for Medicare plans
--Employees of different carriers and subcontractors (together with claim processing firms)
--Pharmacies and employees of Pharmacy advantage Managers

FWA Definitions and examples - ANSFRAUD is an intentional act of deception,
misrepresentation, or concealment with a purpose to gain something of cost. Fraud
frequently entails criminal behavior.
ABUSE effects in unwarranted bills from or prices to a Federal healthcare patron, company,
or different person obtains money to which they're no longer entitled, but there is not the
intent to mislead this is important for fraud to have occurred. Abuse regularly entails actions
which are inconsistent with generic scientific and/or enterprise practices.
WASTE happens when terrible or inefficient practices result in unnecessary healthcare
prices to a Government program.

Who Commits Medicare FWA? - ANS1. Medicare beneficiaries
2. Physicians and other healthcare carriers
3. Pharmacies, pharmacists, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesalers
four. Health plan personnel
five. Insurance dealers and agents
6. Parties who neither provide now not obtain healthcare (expert criminals, together with
participants of prepared crime)
7. Combinations of the above operating together in collusion.

Defining Fraud: A Closer appearance - ANS**According to the health care fraud criminal
statute Healthcare fraud is: knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a
scheme or artifice, to defraud any healthcare advantage application or to obtain, through

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