From The HCCA-AIS Medicaid Compliance News - With an estimated $22 billion in fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid program alone, federal and state officials, along with representatives in the managed care industry, are setting in motion initiatives to improve Medicaid program integrity that are showing results in Medicare as well as other segments. “We will always be doing pay and chase” to some extent, Peter Budetti, M.D., CMS deputy administrator and director of the Center for Program Integrity, noted on Sept. 15 at the America’s Health Insurance Plans Medicaid Conference. Read more