Informational Hearing On Health Care Fraud

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656005635
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Health Care Fraud written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Health Care Fraud: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate A key part of the President's plan to control costs is to reduce the amount of fraud in the system. And make no mistake about it, there is plenty of fraud. While it is impossible to come up with a precise dollar amount, most experts - and we have held hearings on this before - estimate that fraud accounts for about 10 percent of health care expenditures. The American public pays for this fraud. Fraud against private insurers is passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices for health insurance. Fraud against Medicare or other government programs is, of course, paid for by the taxpayers directly. Either way, the American public pays the bill. Let's put this in perspective. In 1994, there will be an estimated $100 billion worth of fraud in the provision of health care services. That means that a family of four will spend approximately this year just to line the pockets of a few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.