Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine : Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It /

"U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York's...

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Autor principal: Leap, Terry L., 1948- (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
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