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Activities performed by the Department of Health and Human Services are discussed in comprehensive semiannual reports that are aut...
frameworks include the "Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1998" (Texas Le...
$3 billion annually, that is about 10 percent of all claims (Albert, 2004). There are a number of laws that specifically address ...
American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...
that Park Medical had hired a contractor, Quorum, to conduct the program. Shortly after agreeing to pay the large settlement, Par...
It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...
Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...
Inspectors General are supposed to be the independent watchdogs of fraud, waste, abuse, and crime in government agencies but they ...
Fraud hurts everyone and there is fraud happening in all industries, even those we deem to be professional. This essay discusses a...
Many types of fraud seem to be increasing, one of these is the Nigerian scams that many people are so familiar with. This is a cas...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
need for reform and the shape that such reform should take. As politicians haggle over private interests and noble ideals that no...
In ten pages this paper examines what is being done to prevent instances of fraud in Medicaid and Medicare. There are 12 sources ...
of how the treatment may be paid for. Other problems erupt when patients ask their doctors to fudge a code through the system beca...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...
This is one of the largest settlements reached in the many similar cases that have come under review. Aside from the fraud involv...
payments is more lucrative then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of...
then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of legal directive or its enf...
cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...
insurance coverage, Medicare requires full participation by everyone over the age of 65 (Scanlon, 2001). As costs continue ...
doctor is simply unaware of changes in the coding system, but, for the purposes of this paper, it will be assumed that the errors ...
In all likelihood, fraud is going on in most if not all organizations every day. It might be small or it could be large like the n...
rise despite the best efforts of companies to fight it. The reasons why companies are getting beaten is that "fighting online cri...
This paper consists of seven pages and examines business kickbacks and fraud as they pertain to the Westchester Distributing Compa...
Given, however, that sales forecasts were prepared for the disposed of Hot Wheels, a red flag should have been raised among the au...
trust and friendship in a small business. Because the relationships in smaller businesses tend to be friends as well as co-workers...
paid signature-gatherers to sign up people to vote. At times, since their pay depends on how many signatures they get, these worke...
responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...
This is a memorandum of twenty four pages that is directed toward the former HHS secretary Donna Shalala and discuses corruption, ...
to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...