Suffolk County RFP – To Provide Fraud and Abuse Prevention Plan Services for the Department of Health Services.

The Chief Purchasing Agent for Suffolk County, New York announced that the Allied Management Group (AMG)…”has been selected by the RFP Evaluation Committee as the apparent successful proposer for the above referenced Request for Proposal.” Suffolk County and AMG have agreed to contract terms. Services will be deployed following receipt of a signed contract. As of 2006 the State of New York has a total of 4,208,629 MediCaid recipients, of which 2,572,242 are enrolled via managed care plans. Suffolk County has a significant MediCaid enrollment to manage and/or monitor. AMG will provide the tools and service to manage this responsibility.

Employees at AMG-SIU take classes at local colleges and universities, including prestige institutions such as the Extension Unit of the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

AMG-SIU has doubled their office space and hired additional staff over the last quarter as a response to the high demand for their SIU services.

One of AMG-SIU’s clients has been ranked one of  “100 best places to work in IT”. The list has been published by Computerworld.

AMG-SIU has several new job openings including a Microsoft .NET Developer and a Health Insurance Knowledge Management Specialist. For more details please visit our career section.

AMG-SIU will be participating in the Graduate Student Career Fair at the Claremont Graduate University (CGU) on 10/12/2007. AMG-SIU is going to announce several new exciting job openings over the next couple of weeks.

AMG-SIU saved one of their clients $210,000 by performing an audit on DRG usage. The audit uncovered that many providers were using wrong DRG codes for newborn babies. Correcting the affected claims saved the health plan over $210,000.

AMG-SIU is participating in local CEO and CIO roundtables such as the CEO and CIO Roundtables by TechBizConnection and the CIO Roundtables at the Claremont Graduate University (CGU).

Effective May 21, 2007, AMG-SIU and M*D Resources, a national consultant to health care facilities and health care organizations, became strategic partners in bringing fraud, waste and abuse detection services to the health care industry.