Trillion dollar scam
Subtitle: exploding health care fraud
By: Saul William Seidman.
Publisher: Universal Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781599429564
Subjects: National health services -- United States; Medical policy -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Insurance crimes -- United States; Fraud -- United States; Health Services Administration -- economics -- United States; Government Regulation -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Root causes of health care fraud; title: The FBI and health care fraud; title: Doctors forced to cheat; title: The hospital's numbers games; title: Computers are stupid; title: What do health regulators regulate; title: Health care is a lie : HMO immunity from responsible medical care; title: Drug confusion and manipulation; title: Preventing health care fraud; title: Medicare facts and figures; title: The malpractice myth; title: Endless waste, inertia, and indolence : our government at work; title: The King-Drew Medical Center; title: Power to the people : a cure for fraud.