Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the or the Preventing and Reducing Improper Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures Act of 2013 . PRIME Act of 2013 The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Curbing improper payments Sec. 101. Requiring valid prescriber National Provider Identifiers on pharmacy claims. Sec. 102. Reforming how CMS tracks and corrects the vulnerabilities identified by Recovery Audit Contractors. Sec. 103. Improving Senior Medicare Patrol and fraud reporting rewards.
Sec. 104. Strengthening Medicaid Program integrity through flexibility. Sec. 105. Establishing Medicare administrative contractor error reduction incentives. Sec. 106. Strengthening penalties for the illegal distribution of a Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP beneficiary identification or billing privileges. TITLE II—Improving data sharing Sec. 201. Access to the National Directory of New Hires. Sec. 202. Improving the sharing of data between the Federal Government and State Medicaid programs.
Sec. 203. Improving claims processing and detection of fraud within the Medicaid and CHIP programs. TITLE III—Report on implementation Sec. 301. Report on implementation.