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Medicare Has Saved $1.5B with the Help of Predictive Analytics

by Angela Guess Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, Raymond Wedgeworth, and Kelly D. Bowman recently wrote in Modern Healthcare, “Over the past five years, the CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] has successfully implemented a Fraud Prevention System using ‘big data’ and predictive analytics approaches to fight fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare fee-for-service program. […]