Word: frauds
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While fraudulent claims are a top priority in the FBI's white-collar-crime division, the White House has yet to target such scams to lower the cost of national health. Perhaps it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage...
Many health experts who find the ambitious scheme too good to be true wonder why the First Lady's task force is overlooking the potential windfall that would result from a crackdown on fraud. The Administration insists that fraud will eventually be targeted. "It really is going to be a priority," says a White House health spokesman. The government, he says, may impose "new criminal statutes to combat fraud...
Even if the Clintonites find a way to plug most of the holes that invite fraud, doctors -- and patients -- are certain to devise new ways to cheat the system. Three years ago, consumers accounted for only 10% of all medical fraud cases, with savvy providers, doctors and other health-care professionals filing the snake's share of claims. Today consumers are behind one-third of all claims...
...identify the items it sells. Only the willingness of two of the firm's employees to blow the whistle alerted officials to the allegations. Meanwhile many insurance companies that formerly did not closely scrutinize claims have become more vigilant. Using computers, they scan for such warning signs of fraud as services performed on weekends and holidays and visits to doctors far from a claimant's home...
...Last week a report in the New York Times alleged that the test was a fraud and that the results had been rigged. While that may have served as part of a cold war strategy to deceive the Soviets into spending their way into oblivion to counter SDI, similar misinformation was provided to Congress to persuade it to fund the program with huge sums -- $31 billion to date. Clearly stung, Defense Secretary Les Aspin, a former Congressman, ordered an internal investigation at the Pentagon. Said he: "Any allegation that the Congress has been misled raises serious questions." Said Senator David...