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Medicare: Identifying Third-Party Billing Companies Submitting Claims

HEHS-99-127R Published: Jun 02, 1999. Publicly Released: Jun 02, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO described how the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and its contractors monitor third-party billing companies' involvement in the submission of claims to Medicare.

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Claims processingFraudHealth care programsHealth insuranceInternal controlsMedical expense claimsMedical information systemsMedicareProgram abusesFraud, Waste and Abuse