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This Article examines the ethical issues of prosecutorial discretion in healthcare fraud investigations, focusing on …
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“Control fraud” is the leading cause of bank failures and financial crises. In “control fraud” the persons controlling … of control fraud: the savings & loan debacle of the 1980s and the ongoing financial crises that first became acute in the … the pathogen. The anopheles mosquito is a vector for malaria. The financial world incurs epidemics of fraud when there is …
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care fraud. In this paper, we consider the diffusion of potentially fraudulent Medicare home health care billing in the … anti-fraud "strike force" offices. We hypothesize that patient-sharing across home health care agencies provides a …
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The public/private mix in Irish health care is nowhere more evident than in the acute hospital system where both public and private patients can be treated in public hospitals by the same consultant. By undertaking new analyses of data from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Scheme, this study...
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We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
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This paper examines satisfaction with various aspects of health care by type of health plan among three groups of health-plan enrollees: those with a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP), those with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), and those with traditional coverage. The findings presented...
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There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from increasing cost shifting to patients underway in American health care and the inordinate complexity...
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The research in the field of healthcare services consumer behaviour represents a very complex task with multiple implications. The consumer behaviour is much nuanced depending on the type of services or products that we are referring on. In the case of healthcare services, the behaviour is more...
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