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payments is more lucrative then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of...
then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of legal directive or its enf...
frameworks include the "Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1998" (Texas Le...
$3 billion annually, that is about 10 percent of all claims (Albert, 2004). There are a number of laws that specifically address ...
American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...
12 pages and 9 sources. This paper provides an overview of the issue of the validity of sexual abuse claims made by children. Th...
p. 5). Since that amendment, far more cases have been successfully prosecuted (Hawryluk, 2004). In 2003, for instance, the Federal...
Fraud hurts everyone and there is fraud happening in all industries, even those we deem to be professional. This essay discusses a...
by ten years in prison and an undetermined fine. One of the most obvious differences between this statute and the others is that ...
of an organization by auditors trained in detecting fraudulent practices is of great importance from moral, legal, and profitabili...
in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...
to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...
In 2013 New York passed the 'Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013' to tighten governance and financial accountability rules and re...
Many types of fraud seem to be increasing, one of these is the Nigerian scams that many people are so familiar with. This is a cas...
the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...
In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...
a study can be conducted and makes conclusions based on the expected results. Logic suggests that if caps are placed on certain ki...
In a paper consisting of forty five pages this paper examines the implementation and beneficiary impact of Medicare's PPS as dicta...
stealing, fewer will attempt to steal anything (Schaefer, 2008). That leads directly to the code of conduct for the company and to...
the internet and then consider the issues of the Data Protection Act and the Distance Selling Regulations. There are many ...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
an inspection, for instance. But this is relatively minor, compared to other problems that could arise from giving a false report...
doctor is simply unaware of changes in the coding system, but, for the purposes of this paper, it will be assumed that the errors ...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...
insurance coverage, Medicare requires full participation by everyone over the age of 65 (Scanlon, 2001). As costs continue ...
justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...
need for reform and the shape that such reform should take. As politicians haggle over private interests and noble ideals that no...
This is one of the largest settlements reached in the many similar cases that have come under review. Aside from the fraud involv...
cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...
of how the treatment may be paid for. Other problems erupt when patients ask their doctors to fudge a code through the system beca...