License to Steal: Updated Edition

ISBN-13: 9780813368108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str.

Malcolm K. Sparrow

Opis

This is an explanation of how thieves exploit the U.S. health system and steal more than $100 billion each year. Fraud and abuse bleeds more than 100 billion dollars each year out of the U.S. health system. This detailed examination shows the problem is worse than almost anyone knows, mostly invisible, and still far from controlled. Sparrow reveals that current control systems fail by presenting fraud perpetrators with a safe, easy-to-hit target: fully automated check-printing systems, which only require thieves to bill correctly, regardless of whether or not any medical service is provided. This target attracts an extraordinary range of criminal entrepreneurs, from low-life hoods who sign on as Medicare or Medicaid providers equipped with nothing more than beepers and mailboxes, to drug trafficking organizations, organized crime syndicates, even major hospital chains.