Participants can request that other users provide them with information. The request will be distributed to all HFMU participants, and members can provide feedback on the system in the tab where it states, "provide feedback on request".
This tab provides an opportunity for a participant to send a tip-off to all HFMU members notifying them of potential fraudulent activities, thus enabling members to mitigate any potential risks within their respective environments.
Participants can load cases which they have investigated and have confirmed that the perpetrator is guilty of fraud or misconduct. In the event where the matter has been taken further (e.g. saps case, hpcsa etc.), participants will be able to provide an update on the status of the case once the outcome has been received.
All investigation cases which have been uploaded by members will be available on this tab for members to view.
The purpose of this app is to demonstrate the power of participants working together. For this we'll look at something that is very difficult to analyse with one scheme's data only, number of consultations per day for each provider.
The idea is to get all visits to providers and group it together over multiple schemes.
The fields required are as follows:
Discipline: Character
Practice number: Character (seven digit code, ex 1234567)
Service date: Date (use universal format of "yyyy-mm-dd", only 2018 dates for initial upload)
Member number: Character
Dependent code: Character
Below is an example sql query to extract the data:
select distinct p.discpdescr, p.prnumber, c.servicedate, c.membernumber, c.dependentcodeThis data must be stored in a CSV file and uploaded to this app.
This data is linked to your scheme, but it is encrypted and not available to any other users.
The filename must contain your schemecode, an underscore and the word "exposure", thus your filename should be:The ftp details are the same for each scheme, users only have write rights and can thus not access or view each others data.
The details are as follows:
Server: www.bhfportal.co.zaThe utiliastion module investigates the number of events, where an event is a distinct service date for a unique beneficiary at a specific provider.
The first area of investigation is simply the number of events or consultations per provider, usualy per day. This can be used to identify providers with a too high count, and to view provider claiming trends
Next is a clustering model that creates a network of provider or disciplines that are often visited together, or within a short time frame of each other.
The above models will all greatly improve with more data, eg diagnosis and tariff codes or external data like wellness and disease management information.
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