SECTION 32.1-319.1. Department to establish program to use prepayment analytics to mitigate risk of improper payments  


A. The Department shall establish a program using prepayment analytics to mitigate the risk of improper payments to providers of services that are paid through the Department's fee-for-service delivery system who commit fraud, abuse, or errors. Such program shall include the use of predictive modeling, provider profiling, trend analysis, and other prepayment analytics to identify providers and claims with a high likelihood of fraud, abuse, or error and prevent payments on potentially fraudulent claims from being made until such claims have been validated.

B. The Department may enter into a contract or agreement with a vendor for the operation of the program to mitigate risk of improper payments to providers of services that are paid through the Department's fee-for-service delivery system required by this section.

2017, c. 750 .