Government using generative AI, analytics in search for fraud
Physicians Practice September 13, 2023
Here’s what you need to know and do considering the DOJ’s and HHS’s drastically expanded use of digital tools to investigate and prosecute those who work in the field of healthcare, including innocent practices and providers.
The federal government has long used digital solutions and data mining in connection with searching for instances of health care fraud. But recently the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has modified and drastically increased its use of those tactics by adding scores of prosecutors and FBI agents who are focused on employing new technological advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to ferret out “fraud, waste, and abuse” in health care.
Even though all...