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To: steve who wrote (25777)	4/6/2004 1:11:29 AM
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New Smart Card System For Medicaid 04/05/04 - 10:07 pm Medicaid fraud is a $75 million a year problem in Texas. What's happening at a local hospital may help curb the problem and save your tax dollars. Medicaid fraud is often difficult to prove. Just between August and March of this year, the attorney general's office says there have been $22 million in overpayments. It's a waste of your tax dollars that may change with new technology being tested right here in Austin. Thirty thousand Medicaid patients in the Austin area don't have to worry about carrying around a piece of paper that says they are covered by Medicaid. "Because it is an ER, people aren't usually expecting to come here. So they're not sitting at home with their form ready to just come straight to the ER," Frank Arguello with Brackenridge ER Admissions said. That's where the smart card comes in. It verifies who you are through your assigned Medicaid number and your fingerprint. That's captured on the card the first time you use it. "The card indicates that this is who I say I am, then this card indicates they're eligible for the services they asked for under Medicaid," Sister Helen Brewer with the Seton HealthCare Network said. That could save Texas taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars when it comes to paying for healthcare services that were either never performed, mistakenly duplicated or fraudulently sought. In the Travis County, there are roughly 150 sites that are part of the smart card pilot program. That includes the emergency rooms at Brackenridge and Children's Hospital. It will likely be expanded if it proves to eliminate waste and fraud within the healthcare system. kxan.com steve

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