For example, the
Utah Bureau of Medicaid Fraud has mined the mass of data
generated by millions of prescriptions, operations and treatment
courses to identify unusual patterns and uncover fraud
[12]. As a result of fraud and abuse detection, ReliaStar Financial
Corp. has reported a 20 percent increase in annual savings,
Wisconsin Physician’s Service Insurance Corporation has noted
significant savings [13] and the Australian Health Insurance
Commission has estimated tens of millions of dollars of
annual savings.