ZPICs: New program cracks down on Medicare fraud and abuse
Billing Alert for Long-Term Care, June 1, 2009
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CMS developed ZPICs to fix flaws in the current Medicare program integrity system, which protects the Medicare program by preventing and detecting fraud and abuse.
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