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

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"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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Main Author: Leap, Terry L., 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medical care > Corrupt practices.
Fraud.
Quacks and quackery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
fraud.
Charlatanisme.
Fraude.
Fraude > États-Unis.
Quackery
Professional Misconduct
Fraud
Fraud > United States.
Medical care > Corrupt practices > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Health care fraud and its facilitating crimes
  • The major health care fraud laws
  • Fraud in fee-for-service and managed care : different sides of the same coin
  • Fraud at major hospitals : profits at any cost, part 1
  • Fraud in the pharmaceutical, medical equipment, and supply industries : profits at any cost, part 2
  • Fighting health care fraud and abuse.

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