CMS identified $371.5 in Medicare overpayments in California, Florida and New York for the 2007 fiscal year. For more information please read their press release.

AMG-SIU’s IT staff was attending the Microsoft launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. Microsoft demonstrated lots of new features during the many sessions and the keynote speech.

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).

On Tuesday, December 11th, 2007, AMG-SIU attended the 4th Nationwide Health Information Network Forum, which focused on sharing experiences from trial implementations of several HIEs (health information exchanges). The event gave the public a chance to interact with stakeholders from the public and private sector, including government and industry representatives. Work is continuing on standards harmonization through HITSP, the Health Information Technology Standards Panel, coordination of efforts/governance under the proposed AHIC 2.0 (American Health Information Community) with the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, and in many other organizations.

One of the most exciting and useful implementations of an HIE presented was that of the Camino de Salud/Long Beach Network for Health, which implemented a web-based electronic health record which, according to their studies, has actually been quite well received by their organizational stakeholders. Interestingly, this project consulted with the Kay Center for e-Health Research at the School of Information Science at Claremont Graduate University. AMG-SIU is proud to have three employees who are alumni of the CGU school of IS!

The challenges posed by creating such a large-scale, interconnected system such as a national health information network are no doubt immense and akin to the challenges in building the original Internet. With the enormous public and private support behind the effort, even if such a system is not adopted by everyone, the benefits of such a system may offer tremendous value for those who do use it. AMG-SIU wishes all stakeholders many successes and a safe, secure, private, vibrant and healthy future!

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.

The US Justice Department received over $1.5 Billion in settlements from Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases during the 2007 fiscal year.

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.