The cost of health care fraud and abuse is enormous. Not only is it costing us a lot of money but one wonders how many more people could afford and receive medical insurance if fraud and abuse were significantly lower. This paper will show that the problem is embedded in the way America...
Health care fraud is a factor that continues to plague the health care industry. The affect health care fraud has on hospitals, is the increasing cost of medical services. The following research will examine and evaluate how organizational structure and governance, culture and the lack of focus ...
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David Dubin was convicted of healthcare fraud under the healthcare fraud statute at 18 U.S.C. § 1347 for overbilling Medicaid for psychological testing performed by a company he helped manage. Dubin did so by "overstat[ing] the qualifications of the employee who actually performed...
Health insurancefraud and abuse is a problem still affecting our nation today. According to Liu, Bier, Wilson, Alexis at el. (2016), “health-care expenditures in the United States exceeds $2 trillion a year.” Many health care professionals are…show more content… ...
like Facebook and MySpace to do background checks. Now health insurers are getting into the act. Such sites have become the latest tools for detecting fraud, which the industry says costs the United States as much as $80 billion a year and accounts for 3%-10% of total healthcare spending...
Portice says even though the incidence of fraud in the industry has remained the same, the gross amount has risen with overall spending. “The United States spends $2.7 trillion on health care, with between three and 10 percent of that amount lost to fraud,” he says. “That makes it a...
CNBC’s Investigations Inc. team spent six months with agents from the New York office of HHS’ inspector general’s office taking part in the HEAT initiative in some of the nation’s hot spots for health care fraud. “In the past, it was probably, we were dealing with one provider, on...
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