In this article by REED ABELSON and ERIC LICHTBLAU at the NEW YORK TIMES, Medicare says its new high tech predictive analytics system “is successfully doing its job of pointing the spotlight on bad behavior and prioritizing the most egregious situations for investigation.” However, due to poor managment controls, limited sharing of information and the extensive number of contractors being applied to this problem, autual fraud prevention and collection of fradulant payments is proving dificult. The full article is here.