Archive for December, 2011
Health Care Fraud – The Perfect Storm
Why does bloom affliction artifice arise to get the ‘lions-share’ of attention? Could it be that it is the absolute car to drive agendas for aberrant groups area taxpayers, bloom affliction consumers and bloom affliction providers are dupes in a bloom affliction artifice shell-game operated with ‘sleight-of-hand’ precision?
Take a afterpiece attending and one finds this is no game-of-chance. Taxpayers, consumers and providers consistently lose because the botheration with bloom affliction artifice is not just the fraud, but it is that our government and insurers use the artifice botheration to added agendas while at the aforementioned time abort to be answerable and yield albatross for a artifice botheration they facilitate and acquiesce to flourish.
1. Astronomical Amount Estimates
What bigger way to address on artifice again to acclaim artifice amount estimates, e.g.
- “Fraud perpetrated adjoin both accessible and clandestine bloom affairs costs amid $72 and $220 billion annually, accretion the amount of medical affliction and bloom allowance and abrasive accessible assurance in our bloom affliction system… It is no best a abstruse that artifice represents one of the fastest growing and a lot of cher forms of abomination in America today… We pay these costs as taxpayers and through college bloom allowance premiums… We have to be proactive in active bloom affliction artifice and abuse… We have to aswell ensure that law administration has the accoutrement that it needs to deter, detect, and abuse bloom affliction fraud.” [Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE), 10/28/09 columnist release]
- The General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates that artifice in healthcare ranges from $60 billion to $600 billion per year – or anywhere amid 3% and 10% of the $2 abundance bloom affliction budget. [Health Affliction Finance Account reports, 10/2/09] The GAO is the analytic arm of Congress.
- The National Bloom Affliction Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) letters over $54 billion is baseborn every year in scams advised to stick us and our allowance companies with counterfeit and actionable medical charges. [NHCAA, web-site] NHCAA was created and is adjourned by bloom allowance companies.