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Ricky D. Sluder, CFE
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Principal Solutions Consultant

Ricky D. Sluder, Certified Fraud Examiner, is a Principal Solution Architect in the Security Intelligence Practice at SAS. He has ~20 years of investigative experience in white collar crime, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse. In 2012, five major cases identified under his investigative/data analytic operational model resulted in DOJ criminal prosecutions exceeding $846 million in fraud.

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Data Mining: A Medicaid Fraud Control Unit's best weapon in the fight against health care fraud

On a cold and wet December morning in 2008, at approximately 1:30 AM, I pulled into the parking lot of an abandoned supermarket in Arlington, TX.  With sleet pelleting my windshield, I saw three additional sets of headlights enter into the parking lot from different directions.  All three cars converged