Strategies in Mitigating Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Risk

In the fiscal year 2014, approximately 1,337 health care providers lost their provider license to Medicare/Medicaid fraud. Out of the 1,318 criminal convictions reported by the U.S. Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU), 395 (30%) were home health care aides who claimed to have rendered services not p...

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Autor principal: Adomako, Godfred (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 2017
En:Año: 2017
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