CHCAA Presents 2005 Public Awareness Award at Conference
At the 2005 Annual Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the Canadian Health Care Anti-Fraud Association presented the Dr. Edward Mazak Advancement in Public Awareness Award for 2005. Each year, the CHCAA accepts nominations for outstanding achievements in raising public awareness of health care fraud, such as the development and implementation of a fraud awareness program, or distributing anti-fraud information through a public medium.
For 2005, the CHCAA was pleased to bestow the Public Awareness Award to the Pharmacist Education Program, a joint initiative of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association, the Ontario College of Pharmacists, and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario.
Founded in 2000, the mission of the CHCAA is to combat health care fraud and assist in restoring the integrity of the Canadian health care system. One of the key objectives of the CHCAA is to build public, private, national and international partnerships with insurance carriers, service providers, law enforcement, health regulatory bodies, consumer groups and provider associations to protect the Canadian health care system from fraud.