FWA Pattern Review

Improve fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) detection
and recoveries

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FWA Pattern Review is part of Cotiviti's
Payment Accuracy solution suite.

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Financial losses due to healthcare fraud reach at least tens of billions of dollars annually, exacerbated by schemes such as conducting medically unnecessary procedures, which can cause direct harm to patients. Contributing to this issue are mandated processing efficiencies, overlooked claims, overwhelmed or insufficient staff, fragmented record systems, and incomplete reports and data sets. These factors all create formidable obstacles in the battle against fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA). Many payers attempt to tackle this challenge with in-house solutions or basic FWA detection software, but such efforts frequently lead to squandered resources and time-consuming efforts spent on reviewing false-positive leads.


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Cotiviti's postpay FWA Pattern Review uncovers the most suspicious provider billing patterns and empowers clients to recover improper payments while minimizing provider abrasion.

Our solution deploys the latest in provider scoring models, including artificial intelligence (AI) and expert-driven rules, and our industry-leading managed service model means you can increase the savings value of your current programs without disruption. Clients also gain access to a modern user interface that fully integrates referral lead detection and case tracking in one application with intuitive workflows and dashboards.

With Cotiviti, clients benefit from:

>$15B

in suspect FWA claims identified for clients in 2023

>70

credentialed investigative and clinical analysts on staff

>25

years of experience in FWA prevention and management

 

FWA Pattern Review solution benefits and features

Cotiviti's trained and certified special investigations unit (SIU) analysts fully vet each lead flagged by our AI and expert rules to weed out any false positives or low-value leads. Our approach includes a full range of optional program integrity services, from record retrieval, to augmenting your staff with investigative support, to providing a complete and comprehensive outsourced SIU. Optional integration with Cotiviti’s prepay Claim Pattern Review delivers an end-to-end solution for FWA prevention and management while reducing duplicate provider outreach.

With postpay FWA Pattern Review, health plans gain benefits that include:

  • Eliminate wasted time spent on false-positive leads. Our expert team vets postpay leads for you so you can focus your efforts on the cases more likely to deliver tangible results.
  • Boost staff productivity. Increase SIU staff productivity without displacing current resources or systems. Help identify providers with the highest probability of FWA and streamline investigative processes.
  • Gain professional support. Rules, analytics, and SIU analysis are continuously updated by Cotiviti's cross-continuum payment solutions. And it's not just software—FWA Pattern Review is powered by more than 70 specialists, including registered nurses and certified fraud professionals.

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With FWA Pattern Review, health plans see increased staff productivity without extensive training. The solution maximizes resources already in place, seamlessly integrating with the processes of health plans of any size. FWA Pattern Review supports analysts, investigators, and auditors who work with extensive and often unpredictable combinations of data and reports, providing them the ability to switch directions and follow new data-driven indicators to expand findings.

We leverage vast clinical experience in many areas, from anesthesia to vascular surgery, to support FWA investigations. Cotiviti's 70+ specialists support all aspects of health plans' payment integrity programs. These professionals mine data and conduct medical record reviews and on average have more than 20 years of proven market experience in FWA. Our team’s credentials include:


  • AHFI (Accredited healthcare fraud investigators)
  • CDC (Certified dental coders)
  • CHCA (Certified healthcare chart auditors)
  • CPC (Certified professional coders)
  • Practicing pharmacists
  • RN (Registered nurses)

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