title: Avoiding pharmacy fraud through automation and audit.
abstract: Pharmacy data offer some of the most reliable and evaluative information in managed care today. As fraud constitutes up to 10% of our total health care expenditures, the author explains how monitoring the pharmacy network for fraud and abuse is an easy way of reclaiming some of these losses.
authors.affiliation: Heritage Information Systems, Inc., Richmond, VA 23220, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tripodi
mesh_terms: D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005375:Financial Audit; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States