HEALTHCARE FRAUD

Healthcare Fraud

Healthcare Fraud

Introduction

Health care fraud involves submitting health care claims for profit to which not entitled. There are several systems of health care fraud. Patients commit fraud when they sold on the black market prescription drugs subsidized or fully covered, use the benefits of transport for non-medical or falsify information in the application of medical services. Professionals commit fraud when billing medical services never provided, show duplicate claims for the same service or cancel patient copayments (Joseph, 2004). In the case of health care fraud, the provider transfers the costs to patients. Statistics show that due to the ...