SPOTLIGHT: CMS is first to try federal fraud detection software

Attention anyone who wants to cheat the system out of "meaningful use" dollars and other stimulus funding: CMS is becoming the first federal agency to try out a government-developed analytics program intended to weed out fraud in the disbursement of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money. The agency also will use the software to help reduce fraud and abuse--responsible for $65 billion in wasted spending in 2009 alone--in other Medicare and Medicaid activities. FierceHealthIT