As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.
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As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.
Billing for unnecessary tests and procedures, even on a small scale, is particularly egregious because of the risk inherent to the victim patients, let alone the financial fraud on payors.
A few years ago, I read about someone who sent a text message to a person with whom he was having an argument. In the text, the sender wrote something like, “I’ll get you,” followed by an emoji of a little bomb. That little bomb was interpreted to be a death threat and the sender ended up a convict.
Billing for unnecessary tests and procedures, even on a small scale, is particularly egregious because of the risk inherent to the victim patients, let alone the financial fraud on payors.
Billing for unnecessary tests and procedures, even on a small scale, is particularly egregious because of the risk inherent to the victim patients, let alone the financial fraud on payors.
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the danger of identity fraud on physicians.