Check out the icons on these buttons in the 2011 Ford Explorer.  Any idea what they are for?

It used to take 90 days before the government detected a scam. By then, the crooks were long gone, sometimes with millions of dollars. Now authorities get billing data as it’s submitted, allowing them to catch suspects in real time, “as opposed to the typical pay and chase model we’ve had for years,” said Gerald Roy, assistant inspector general for investigations.

Detroit is one of 5 cities involved in the largest ever Medicare fraud bust.

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Cost benefits come up in every conversation about implementing SCOUT with a new client.  In one way or another, every one of these are addressed during the sales process. I thought the issues were articulated very well in a recent article I read.

For any software search, cost benefits can be expressed in uncomplicated terms:

• Staff reduction
• Process improvement
• Regulatory compliance
• Cycle time reduction
• Employee training & retention

Read the entire and expanded article here from Insurance and Technology