Professor Sparrow has worked closely with Federal Officials on issues of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control for many years, and is author of the following relevant documents.

1) "Health Care Fraud Control: The State of the Art," Program on Strategic Computing and Telecommunications in the Public Sector, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 1995.

2) License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System, Westview Press,Denver, Colorado & Oxford, England. 1996 (1st edition)

3) "Health Care Fraud Control: Understanding the Challenge," Journal of Insurance Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2. November 1996. pp86-96.

4) "Health Care Fraud: Towards Effective Control." Final Report for National Institute of Justice, under grant no: #96-IJ-CX-0010. June 1997

5) "Fraud Control in the Health Care Industry: Assessing the State of the Art," Research in Brief, National Institute of Justice, Washington D.C., February 1999.

6) “Controlling Fraud and Abuse in Medicaid: Innovations and Obstacles,” Report from the Executive Seminars on Fraud and Abuse in Medicaid, sponsored by HCFA (December 1998—May 1999). Report Published by the Health Care Financing Administration. September 1999.

7) License to Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America’s Health Care System, (2nd edition), Westview Press, Denver, Colorado & Oxford, England, 2000

8) “Fraud and Abuse Detection and Control in the Florida Medicaid Program: A Strategic Review of AHCA’s Program Integrity Operations,” Prepared for Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. September 2001

9) “Corruption in Health Care Systems: The American Experience,” in Global Corruption Report 2006: Special Focus – Corruption & Health, Transparency International, Berlin,Germany. 2006. pp16-22

In particular item 6 on this list resulted from a collaboration between HCFA and Sparrow to design and deliver regional workshops (funded and provided from the federal level) to identify strengths and weaknesses in Medicaid state agency operations, and to offer assistance and expertise from a broader view and higher level. This exercise was, in an important sense, a precursor to the current program in thinking about the nature of a distinctive federal contribution to Medicaid fraud and abuse control.