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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 2009

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) to recommend and implement changes to the Program Integrity Manual (PIM). The Program Integrity Manual (PIM) provides Medicare contractors specific guidelines to related fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) detection, including processes, activities, and requirements.

Optimal will interview key stakeholders of the Medicare Integrity Program, track suggestions for changes, and provide recommendations to CMS for the revision of the content and format of the PIM. Optimal will then implement approved changes by drafting new language for the manual and facilitating the CMS change request process.
Optimal Solutions Group, LLC is a nonpartisan, public policy research consulting firm in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Optimal is committed to supplying insightful program evaluation, cost-benefit and effectiveness analyses, custom econometric modeling, and market analyses for decision makers in both the public and private sectors.

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Our primary capabilities include:

  • Program Evaluation
  • Survey Design & Research
  • Software Services
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Expert Witness Reports & Testimony
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Disparity Studies
  • GIS Mapping Services

Our policy areas of expertise include:

  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Criminal Justice
  • Housing
  • Social Services
  • Transportation
  • Workforce Development

Optimal serves numerous government and commercial clients, including federal and state agencies, community-based organizations, business associations, and law firms. 

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Mark Turner at 301.918.7301, mturner@optimalsolutionsgroup.com. 
Tracye Turner at 301.918.7302, tturner@optimalsolutionsgroup.com.


 

Optimal Analytics' Real-Time Framework is based on rigorous but flexible design and allows for concurrent data collection, analysis and reporting. It also incorporates a continuous feedback loop for customized stakeholder reporting - ranging from policy makers to the public.
 
Optimal has applied the Framework to projects in its four core policy areas: education; health; housing, economic development and transportation; and workforce development.
 
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Optimal has developed Revelo TM - research focused software which performs the Real-Time Framework functions of data collection, analysis and reporting.

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