Dr. Yao serves as Senior Medical Director of Medical & Payment Policy with Blue Shield of California and chairs Blue Shield of California's Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Wins the NHCAA Investigative Excellence Award for its investigation of Wellness One, for suspicious billing patterns which resulted in millions of dollars of fraudulent claims.

Jack L. Price, AHFI, ALHC, CFE, Chief Security Officer of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST), has been elected as the new Chair of the NHCAA Board of Directors.

The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) Chief Executive Officer Louis Saccoccio released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement awarding $9 million to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) programs across the nation continue their work fighting Medicare fraud.

In South Florida alone, government programs and private insurers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to criminal rings that fabricate claims from non-existent clinics, using genuine patient-insurance and provider-billing information that the perpetrators have bought and/or stolen for that purpose.