The fight against fraud continues

The fight against fraud and abuse: analyzing constituent support.

Most efforts to combat fraud and abuse have relied on a punitive-deterrent approach, assuming that higher penalties and stricter enforcement will both punish present offenders and deter potential ones. Social science perspectives, particularly that of systems theory, suggest that a more effective approach is prevention grounded in an understanding of the constituencies involved. Constituency an...

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

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Health care fraud: a primer on the schemes and the tools to fight health care fraud.

As the national debate over health care reform moves forward, one issue with which policy makers must grapple is the percentage of health care dollars lost to fraud and abuse. The General Accounting Office estimates that as much as ten percent of total health care dollars are lost to the inappropriate, and in some cases criminal, practices of health care providers. This article discusses the ...