12th Annual Medicare/Medicaid Statistics and Data Analysis Conference
Agenda
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. #1 : Resilience and a Little Faith
Cherie Castellano, M.A., C.S.W., L.P.C.
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. #2 : The Importance of Statistical Analysis with FBI Cases
Jerry Melton ~ FBI
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. #3 : Hospital Cost Report Data: Data Mining for Benefit Integrity
Jane Grover, Marcus Israel, and Greg Dobbins ~ AdvanceMed
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Break
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. #4 : Sampling
Alvin Binns ~ Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. #5 : Defending your “arbitrary and capricious” samples
Brad Casselman ~ Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sampling Open Discussion
12th Annual Medicare/Medicaid Statistics and Data Analysis Conference
Agenda
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. #6: Visually Detecting Medical Fraud
Terry Allen and Ira Nathan ~ Integriguard
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Break
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. #7: Infusion Confusion and Identity Theft
John Fenstermaker and Presley Rebman ~
Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC
10:20 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. #8: Multivariate Detection of Aberrant Billing: An evaluation
Maharaj Singh and Ted Wallace ~
National Government Services, Inc.
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. #9: Network Detection and Analysis
Karen Painter and Sandra Dorman ~ SafeGuard Services
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. #10: Medicare-Medicaid Network Analysis
Jamie Lejcar and Andrew Needs ~ EDS
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Travel time
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. #11: Optional Tour of National Naval Aviation Museum
http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/PlanYourVisit/Tours.aspx
12th Annual Medicare/Medicaid Statistics and Data Analysis Conference
Agenda
Thursday, October 30, 2008
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. #12: Data Mining, What you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask
David Duling, SAS
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Break
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. #13: PolyAnalyst: New Fraud Detection and Investigation Capabilities
Sergei Ananyan, Megaputer
9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. #14: Using Visual Analysis in Medical Fraud
Nick Vellis, i2
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 13th Annual Medicare/Medicaid Statistics and Data Analysis Conference
10:30 a.m. Adjourn
