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HRD-92-76 Medicare: One Scheme Illustrates Vulnerabilities to Fraud
Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2018-05-09
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ISBN : 9781718920583
HRD-92-76 Medicare: One Scheme Illustrates Vulnerabilities to Fraud
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Medical laboratories
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Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781289048761
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Medicare's involvement with fraudulent medical laboratory operations, focusing on: (1) the extent of false claims paid by Medicare; (2) Medicare's success in recovering lost funds; and (3) Medicare's vulnerability to similar fraudulent activities. GAO found that: (1) although Medicare experienced some success in identification and prosecution of fraudulent laboratory operators, many fraudulent claims were unrecovered; (2) physicians avoid liability for repayment by failing to respond to Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and carrier collection letters, stopping operations and forming new corporate identities, and using group practice billing; (3) recovering fraudulent claims concerning unnecessary tests remains difficult due to the required burden of proof; (4) pursuit of fraud cases through civil procedures is hampered by a lack of interagency cooperation and critical missing files; (5) inadequate monitoring of physicians' referral patterns, the ease of obtaining multiple provider numbers, and the failure of provider information regulations to exclude past violators continue to make Medicare vulnerable to fraud; and (6) some carriers have developed computerized claims edits to automatically suspend claims payments, and HCFA requires carriers to establish separate fraud investigations branches, but reduced Medicare funding may constrain and adversely affect investigations and reviews.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Medicare
ISBN : 9780160473982
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Governmental investigations
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Author :
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release :
Category : Health insurance
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Health
ISBN :
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1993-04
Category : Medicine
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office. Human Resources Division
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1993-06
Category : Health insurance
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