Of course, Medicare already has access to its own billing data and prosecutors have plenty of ways to investigate and punish fraudsters.
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And Medicare says that in Miami, it will analyze billing data and perform spot inspections with the aim of weeding out fraudulent companies.
When mathematician Vincent Blondel studied the location and billing data from one billion cellphone calls in Belgium, he found himself documenting a divide that has threatened his country's ability to govern itself.
The problem may only worsen as carriers embrace new ways of billing, including tiered data plans.
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Netflix is increasingly billing itself as a data company, with a numbers so solid that it can afford to make huge gambles on original programming (House of Cards and Arrested Development, anybody?) based on an almost psychic-like ability to know what its users like.
Basic data used for billing will be available to suppliers without asking.
For example, the company is in the process of acquiring Sterling Commerce, which allows businesses to connect to each other's back-end data for things like billing, inventory and trucking capacity.
The City currently stores and manages some data in a cloud solution, such as the Chicago Department of Aviation's data related to airline billing and building plan information as part of the Department of Buildings' E-Plan review system.
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The first time the terminal is switched on, it directs web surfers to a portal where they enter their billing information and choose which voice or data package they want.
Redman uses the example of customer billing to develop a business case that helps data quality make the cut among competing priorities.
All other data, such as shipping and billing address and payment information, would then be passed on by PayPal automatically -- leaving you with nothing to do but admire what a beautiful pair of sneakers your precious Mr. Cuddlesworth makes.
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Offerdahl sees even bigger opportunities ahead as companies start handing out wireless palmtops and other data devices, each with its own complicated billing plan.
Instead, the fraudsters steal names and Social Security numbers by the hundreds, or even the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with access to personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks and state employees.
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So rather than steal identities wallet by wallet, or computer by computer, they lift names and Social Security numbers by the dozens, or the hundreds, or the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with access to personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks, state employees and debt collectors.
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Insights from invoice data can help to identify the real drivers of billing rates, allowing companies to take appropriate action to reduce their legal spend.
By analyzing this data, corporate law departments can see what they are billing most, with whom, where and at what rate.
For example, such cases typically concern permission to use data from a single source, such as a phone company's billing records.
Only your data throughput speed will change if you use 3GB or more in one billing cycle on a 3G or 4G smartphone or 5GB or more on a 4G LTE smartphone.
Legal departments today must integrate (i) matter management, (ii) e-billing, and (iii) reporting systems in order to maximize the effectiveness of their data.
Second, the data could also be used by third parties advocating for change among hospital pricing and billing practices.
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Knowledgeable and trained inspectors go through millions of claims, comparing the data against past history, averages, and other digital information that will alert them to unusual activity in billing.
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