Insights From Organized Crime for Disorganized Health Care

Fraud in health care and organized crime.

James F. Dube, JD  falSe ClaimS to mediCare and mediCaid are nothing new. Billions of dollars are being lost in Medicare and Medicaid programs to waste, fraud and abuse. Fraud has been characterized by the FBI as intentional deception or misrepresentation of facts to gain an illegitimate benefit. Abuse has been defined as unnecessary costs associated with actions and services that are inconsis...

Organized thrombus, disorganized heart.

(59% vs. 38%), which does not reach statistical significance for the small number of patients analyzed. In addition, this higher rate of slow flow could have provoked larger MI, as indirectly reflected by the higher rate of cardiogenic shock and higher level of troponin T in the group of patients who died. It is of note that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is not mentioned, although i...

Organized Crime Goes Cyber

Policing organized crime

Until a few decades ago, the police were mainly a reactive bureaucratic organization that moved from one criminal event to the next, according to the degree to which the outside world required its services. Since then the police have abandoned the emphasis on law enforcement with regards to petty crime and public order. More recently the police have developed community policing as an important ...

transnational organized crime, palermo convention’s effects

transnational organized crime is one of the most problematic matters for international community in 21st century. these crimes are committed by organized criminal groups consisting of three or more persons, a unique leadership and strict discipline with cruel sanctions in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit. commission of the crimes nationally and inte...