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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 Medic...

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Main Author: Leap, Terry L. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2011
Subjects:
Medicolegal issues
kickbacks, illicit referrals, overcharging and double billing, upcoding, unbundling, rent-a-patient, pill-mill schemes, insurance scams, short-pilling, off-label marketing, pharmaceuticals, rebate fraud
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