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Ross Kaplan
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Ross Kaplan serves as the Principal Global Solutions Architect for Health Care in the SAS Security Intelligence global practice. He supports health care cost containment (Payment Integrity) initiatives across the Health & Life Sciences, State and Local Government, and Federal Government verticals. He has been active across North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Africa. Providing industry expertise and vision at conferences and directly to customers, Ross has been at SAS for over eight years Ross is a 16 year veteran in the health insurance industry, focusing on analytics in health and condition management, member retention, and provider profiling prior to specializing in health care. He has assisted health plans, federal and State and local government agencies in defining their requirements and providing guidance in their solution advancement. Ross is also trained and experience in Healthcare privacy laws. Prior to SAS, Ross served as a solutions architect at Computer Associates and Siebel Systems, working with the Fortune 1000. He has supported other industries such as Insurance, Banking, and Pharmaceutical. However, his primary focus has always been in health care, receiving training in HIPAA and having direct input in Siebel’s health care product development. Ross has been featured speaker at many industry events focused on health care cost containment and payment integrity, most recently on the topic of social network analysis and link analysis, predictive analytics, and fraud/waste and abuse in the European market. Ross earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Computer Information Systems (CIS) from San Francisco State University and his Master’s Degree in Statistics as well as an MBA with a concentration in Systems Analysis. Sales Training: • Consultative Selling • The Customer Delight Principal • Major Account Sales Strategy

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Is fraud really the biggest issue in health care cost?

Health care fraud is often depicted as the great, five-headed hydra in Greek mythology. When you cut off one head, two more grow back.  But more to the point, health care fraud has been presented as one of the primary (if not the primary) causes of unnecessary healthcare spend.  However, just because

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Health care fraud and the promise of predictive modeling

It has become clear after speaking with numerous health insurance carriers, both in the United States and beyond, as well as at conferences (such as NHCAA), that there is a mass movement towards the nirvana that is "predictive modeling." Now that our industry is realizing the importance of predictive modeling

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Policy modification for health care waste and abuse

In the United States, loss prevention trends in health care have seemed very loudly directed at health care fraud, and less so about waste and abuse. This may be for many reasons: if you’re a private carrier, fraud prevention allows for larger recoveries and greater avoidance of future lost revenues.

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Larger fraud schemes means more money out the door

There has been a great deal of noise and subsequent press around healthcare fraud schemes getting larger and involving more collaborators. Much of the collusive fraud that has come to light has been taking place for years, costing millions of dollars, with very little recovery. In many cases, the conspirators

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Is it fraud or abuse?

When discussing fraud and abuse, it often (very often) becomes a philosophical discussion of whether aberrant activities are fraudulent or abusive. The quick difference being that fraudulent is intentional and abuse is not.  The distinction quickly becomes an issue of legal and illegal as opposed to right and wrong. What

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