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Mike Pflug
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Government and Healthcare Advisory Architect

Mike Pflug is a Government and Healthcare Advisory Architect for the Security Intelligence Practice at SAS. Mike brings 15 years of experience and passion to helping government health and human services agencies use analytics to reduce costs and improve the quality of the services they provide to citizens. An expert in data warehousing, Mike has helped over forty states and several federal agencies modernize their analytic systems through the application of technology and processes. An author of several best practice papers on data management, Mike holds a masters in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence
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What do identity thieves covet the most?

Recently nine pharmacists from across the country were charged for their part in a $12.1M health care fraud scheme. The pharmacists allegedly took money for prescription medications that were neither purchased nor dispensed. The indictments further allege that the defendants billed Medicare and Medicaid for medications that were often medically unnecessary and for some medications that were purportedly dispensed to