Electronic health record vendor Extormity announced the launch of its new Extormicare® Medicare Fraud Module at a press conference in Washington, D.C. today.

"As recent investigative reports have made clear, Medicare fraud and abuse is costing taxpayers billions of dollars annually," said CEO Brantley Whittington. "We simply want our generous slice of this very tasty and expensive pie."

"We conducted market research which reveals that most of the fictional care reported to Medicare for reimbursement was not documented in an EHR — making those perpetrating the fraud far less efficient than they could be," added Whittington. "Armed with this insight, we developed an EHR module that automatically documents falsified encounters and generates the highest possible level of E&M coding. These codes give the impression of meeting medical necessity criteria, while helping Extormity achieve profit targets."

"A review of court documents also indicated that most of those who are apprehended were flagged based on the repetitive nature of their claims submissions," according to Extormity CIO Oliver Brindle. "We found an algorithm savant in Croatia who wrote some code that optimizes these fake encounters — moving deftly from a garden variety UTI to pancreatitis. We paid him in goat skins and brandy and expect to profit handsomely on our meager investment."

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