In 1996 Congress enacted the Medicare Integrity Program to give The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the authority to contract with other than, but not excluding, Medicare Carriers and Fiscal Intermediaries to perform certain program safeguard functions. This strategy for the detection and prevention of fraud and abuse involves separating program safeguard functions from claims processing activities. Cahaba Safeguard is one of 12 program safeguard contractors (PSCs) awarded a contract to perform this work.

Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, created in 2002 to administer the provisions of any task orders under the program safeguard contract. However, our organization’s experience reaches back over 35 years as a Medicare contractor and 70 years as an insurance provider in the state of Alabama.

As a subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama and working with the extensive reach of the Medicare program, Cahaba Safeguard has gained valuable experience working with multiple terabytes of healthcare data from all 50 states and years of accumulated healthcare information: very few organizations today have access to such a rich and comprehensive body of knowledge, resources and experience as that available to Cahaba Safeguard Administrators.