Florida HMO looking to biometrics to curb fraud
24 March, 2010
category: Biometrics, Health
Simply Healthcare Plans (SHP), a Florida-based HMO, has partnered with Biometric Technologies, an ID systems provider, in an effort to thwart health care fraud, according to a CIOL article.
The Biometric Technologies product that is to be used for the SHP project is their BioClaim software that is developed specifically to weed out fraudulent health care claims.
BioClaim works by requiring submission of biometric data from the patient when they are seeking treatment and including that information along with the basic patient information as it returns to the HMO claims system.
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