Medi-Cal Fraud:Attorney General Lockyer And California DHS Call For New Medi-Cal Computer System To Fight Fraud

Medi-Cal Fraud:Attorney General Lockyer And California DHS Call For New Medi-Cal Computer System To Fight Fraud: "Attorney General Bill Lockyer and Sandra Shewry, director of the Department of Health Services (CDHS), today released a report prepared by the Attorney General’s Medi-Cal Task Force finding that the state’s decades old Medi-Cal computer system needs to be replaced to assist in effectively identifying and preventing fraud. The report also provides a three-step blueprint for state policymakers to modernize California’s 30-year-old Medi-Cal system that will result in improved quality of care for beneficiaries, timely payments to legitimate providers, and help prevent fraud estimated by some to be more than a billion dollars a year. "