tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 44

Enforcement: FRAUD-FIGHTERS TOUT RECORD-BREAKING YEAR

Allowing your commitment to compliance to waver could cost you big.  Think the campaign against health care fraud and abuse is easing up? The latest statistics from the Department of Justice should change your mind. In fiscal year 2003 - which ended Sept. 30 - the DOJ reeled in $1.7 billion in civil fraud recoveries against health care companies. Put another way, fraud settlements are costing health care organizations more than $6.5 million per business day. Health care fraud also represents the lion's share of the $2.1 billion in total fraud recoveries netted by the...

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