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Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine

Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine

Leap, Terry L.

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Health GeneralMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0801449790
ISBN13: 9780801449796
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.38
Language: English

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 Medicaid fraud office recovered $283 million and obtained 148 criminal convictions. In July 2010, the U.S. Justice Department charged nearly 100 patients, doctors, and health care executives in five states of bilking the Medicare system out of more than $251 million through false claims for services that were medically unnecessary or never provided. These cases only hint at the scope of the problem.

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