SAS^® Fraud Framework for Government

Government agencies face enormous challenges in attempting to prevent improper payments caused by fraud, waste and abuse. In the US, the federal government estimated more than $115 billion in improper payments was lost in fiscal year 2011 alone – a conservative estimate at best.  And it's the taxpayer who ends up footing the bill.

Fraud also takes a hefty toll on government programs themselves, which are subject to budget cuts, inadequate and reduced program funding, possible review by the Inspector General and possible Congressional or Legislative hearings. And with the distribution of federal funds under the economic stimulus package, officials must be especially vigilant in identifying theft or mismanagement. The SAS Fraud Framework for Government can help agencies at all levels of government wage a war against misuse of government funds.

SAS^® Fraud Framework for Government

The SAS Fraud Framework can be applied to many areas of government – from detecting collusive patterns in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to purchase-card fraud, bid-rigging and terrorist financing. SAS can help government agencies:

Improve data effectiveness 

• A single version of the truth along with sophisticated data matching and standardization routines, made possible by SAS data integration and ETL, reach across multiple platforms, enabling critical decisions to be made more efficiently and with less risk.
• Using SAS for data quality lets organizations standardize and augment data while identifying duplicate names, addresses and other identifying information.

Improve audit and investigation effectiveness 

• Proactively uncover undetected fraud patterns to identify and predict future risks with SAS' advanced analytical capabilities.
• Ease the burden of validating false positives, maximizing recovery and prosecution while reducing processing time and recovery costs.
• Identify fraudulent claims before they are paid and prioritize for investigation payments that seem likely to be improper.
• Rapidly detect new fraud schemes and patterns before they cause problems.

Improve program effectiveness and monitor fraudulent activity

• Monitor key performance metrics to determine program effectiveness and efficiency with SAS Strategy Management.
• Define metrics in a dashboard environment to monitor activities and threats proactively, helping curtail fraud.
• Identify sources of organization failure and isolate best practices that lead to success.