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US Medicare fraud thrives in the sheer scale of the operation — exploiting a sea of paperwork, millions of identification numbers and an annual federal budget nearly equal to the US Department of Defense. But recently, the task of identifying, tracking and prosecuting criminal activity in the Medicare system has received a substantial new weapon — Big Data.
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