Rockville, MD – December 31, 2011 – TurningPoint Global Solutions, a software engineering and information technology enabled services (ITES) professional services firm, today announced that it has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to perform as the Compromised Number Checklist  (CNC) Contractor Application system to enable the Agency in combating fraud and abuse within the Medicare reimbursement system.  To prevent the payment of fraudulent claims, TurningPoint will upgrade and maintain a database repository of compromised Medicare numbers. The database will allow designated Medicare contractors to access these numbers so that they can check them against those in claims processing systems prior to invalid payments being made.

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“This database repository will empower CMS to protect taxpayer assets,” said David Hughes, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at TurningPoint, “by enabling them to reduce incorrect payments made to illegitimate providers.”

TurningPoint will cleanse and enhance the data in the existing database, perform database enhancements and maintenance, and analyze the data to develop new and innovative strategies for mitigating fraud.

“TurningPoint’s vast experience, which includes several engagements with CMS involving fraud management and prevention, provides us with deep insight with which we can advise CMS in expanding its fraud prevention approach to comply with the President’s mandate,” added TurningPoint’s CEO Bangalore Shivacharan.

About Turning Point Global Solutions

Headquartered in Rockville, MD, TurningPoint is a CMMI Maturity Level 3 independently appraised software engineering professional services firm that serves a diversified group of commercial and government customers, enabling them to generate value from their IT investments. TurningPoint achieves these results through the successful planning, development, integration, and maintenance of IT solutions and by driving operational efficiencies into infrastructure operations. TurningPoint’s focus is on providing high availability business applications that improve bottom-line results by streamlining high-transaction-volume, mission-critical business processes. For more information, visit www.tpgsi.com.