CMS has announced that its Fraud Prevention System identified or prevented $820 million in inappropriate Medicare payments during its first three years, including $454 million in 2014 alone. The Fraud Prevention System uses predictive analytics technologies to identify fraudulent claims before they are paid. CMS also intends to expand the Fraud Prevention System and its algorithms in future years “to identify lower levels of non-compliant health care providers who would be better served by education or data transparency interventions.”