Tag: Senate Finance Committee
SIA: Biometrics can cut fraud in Medicare, Medicaid
July 3, 2012SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—Biometrics can reduce fraud in Medicare and Medicaid programs and provide assurance that patient information is protected, the Security Industry Association told the Senate Finance Committee on June 29.SIA, responding to a open letter from the panel to combat the “multibillion-dollar problem of waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal health care programs, issued a white paper stating that the use of biometrics in identification and authentication would meet the...
