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Reducing Health Care Fraud through Analytic Insight
June 01, 2010
(Frank Irving, advanceweb) -- Personnel at a hospital in Miami called an Illinois woman repeatedly, demanding she pay a $2,000 bill for giving birth. She told the callers she'd never been to that hospital - and was 72 years old.
A fraud ring used 29 fake storefronts spanning Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana to provide bogus cancer and AIDS drugs in an attempt to defraud taxpayers of $100 million.
And problems such as these are not confined to the U.S.: About $260 billion is lost every year to fraud and error in health care around the world, or enough to quadruple the budgets of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and control malaria in Africa, combined. Read more...
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