Con Artists, Swindlers, and Scammers: Fraudsters by any other Name

Overview:

Con Artists, Swindlers, and Scammers: Fraudsters by any other Name

Miguel A. Vazquez, MD, FAAFP

This presentation will be an overview of fraud in the healthcare space.

After this presentation, attendees will be able to:

1. Identify Fraud, Waste and Abuse
2. Know how to avoid fraud
3. Identifies what entities have been found to be fraudulent

Presenter:

Miguel A. Vazquez, MD, FAAFP
Private Practice

Financial Disclosures:

Miguel A. Vazquez, MD, has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Maria Del Pilar Montanez Villacampa, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD; Yun Shi, MD, PhD; Mark Nadeau, MD, MBA; Fozia Ali, MD; Christine Camacho, MD; Richel Avery, MD; Nehman Andry, MD; Angelica Davila, MD; Nida Hussain, MD; Neil Sood, DO) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD, PhD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief. have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Kelsi Sexton Barajas- TAFP FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: sextonk@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu