Salient Corporation's Performance Management Solution Helps NY State Counties Identify Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Chautauqua County continues Medicaid investigation after efforts uncover system abuse HORSEHEADS, N.Y., May 12


HORSEHEADS, N.Y., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicaid eligibility topped more
than 4 million in New York State in 2007. With so many recipients and
providers involved, the New York State Department of Health is committed to
eliminating any cases of fraud, waste, and abuse.


Over the last two years, Salient Corporation, provider of the world's most
advanced performance management technology, has helped seven New York State
counties uncover thousands of cases of Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse. Two
additional counties are also in the process of contracting and implementing
the solution.


Chautauqua County was the seventh New York County to contract for
Salient's performance management solution to manage Medicaid. In just eight
months since it implemented its Medicaid investigation, it has identified
several potential instances of provider fraud, validating this project's
continued existence.


Other statewide counties using the system include: Albany, Chemung,
Monroe, Onondaga, Broome, and Ulster; and it will soon be implemented and
running in the New York City-Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk.


The Salient solution provides counties with near real-time, interrogative
access to transactional as well as select non-transactional program data,
enabling them to immediately identify opportunities for cost savings and
operation efficiency, and to detect questionable activity. In addition, for
the first time, it has enabled these counties to have a complete view of the
activities of all of their providers and recipients so that they can identify
behavior patterns and work with the providers and recipients to improve the
quality of service while reducing costs.


"We use the Salient system to identify and track providers who may be
audited based on questionable activities," said Greg Edwards, Chautauqua
County Executive. "With it, our Medicaid specialist has passed along several
potential targets to the State Office of Medicaid Inspector General for
further investigation. We also have expanded on our current responsibilities
around recipient fraud, as we now have an easy-to-use continuous monitoring
solution for reviewing Medicaid cases."


Under the Medicaid program, taxpayer dollars are used to provide health
care to low-income individuals. According to the State Department of Health,
these dollars must be effectively spent to help those in need; however, a
small percentage of providers and recipients engage in various forms of fraud
and abuse.  This affects everyone-the recipients of care, the taxpayers who
pay for it, and the vast majority of providers who deliver quality care.


"The Salient system provides complete information on every individual and
case in the system and it allows for instantaneous investigation into
anomalies," said Guy Amisano, president and founder, Salient. "We expect more
activity-both at the federal and national levels-as government looks to create
more accountability in existing systems, discover cost savings, and improve
overall efficiency."


For more information, please visit www.salient.com.



About Salient Corporation


Salient Corporation, located in Horseheads, NY, presents a radical new
paradigm for monitoring and controlling government spending. The company
provides near real-time, continuous auditing and continuous monitoring
capabilities to precisely measure the impact of economic activity on the
quality and quantity of services delivered, and then to deploy this knowledge
to improve results. Salient's clients span the public and private sectors and
represent more than 35,000 users in 53 countries. For more information, visit
www.salient.com.



SOURCE  Salient Corporation