Obama and Insurers Join to Cut Health Care Fraud
By ROBERT PEAR, NYT
WASHINGTON — President Obama and health insurance executives plan to announce a new joint effort on Thursday to crack down on health care fraud by sharing and comparing claims data, administration officials say.
The collaboration represents something of a turnabout for Mr. Obama, who in the last three years has often denounced “abuses by the insurance industry.” The White House is now enlisting some of the same companies to help ferret out fraud.
Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. are scheduled to join insurers to unveil the initiative at the White House on Thursday.
“This partnership brings together the resources and best practices of government and private sectors, giving us an unprecedented ability to detect and stamp out health care fraud,” Ms. Sebelius said.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama and health insurance executives plan to announce a new joint effort on Thursday to crack down on health care fraud by sharing and comparing claims data, administration officials say.
The collaboration represents something of a turnabout for Mr. Obama, who in the last three years has often denounced “abuses by the insurance industry.” The White House is now enlisting some of the same companies to help ferret out fraud.
Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. are scheduled to join insurers to unveil the initiative at the White House on Thursday.
“This partnership brings together the resources and best practices of government and private sectors, giving us an unprecedented ability to detect and stamp out health care fraud,” Ms. Sebelius said.
(More here.)
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