Why is my pharmacy being required to take fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) training?
In order to comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement, pharmacists, pharmacy workforce members, subcontractors, downstream entities, related entities and agents who provide services to or for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Part D members must receive general and specialized training to prevent fraud, waste and abuse by December 31, 2009. Q: What is the purpose of the fraud, waste, and abuse requirement? With an annual price tag of $440 billion, Medicare is currently the nation’s largest federally funded health insurance program. Due to its size and complexity, the government considers fraud and abuse a major concern, which is why it included the fraud, waste, and abuse requirement in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). The overall purpose behind the requirement is to protect the federal government and Medicare beneficiaries from fraudulent, abusive, and wasteful schemes through the d
