Health-care fraud alarm sounded
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EDMONTON - Auditor General Fred Dunn fears health-care fraud and identity theft are occurring because the Alberta government has failed to properly keep track of more than two million duplicate or replacement health-care cards.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have made a name for themselves chasing healthcare fraud. There's a new case on their calendar.
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Unpredictable hospital billing can lead to financial anxiety about the prospect of dealing with insurance companies even before a surgery has happened.
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BALTIMORE - Health care organizations not considering offshore outsourcing are missing out on significant cost savings, but administrators need to be aware of potential risks, including lax handling of data security by some vendors and the effect on employee morale, a health care IT analyst said Tuesday.
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new.
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Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs?
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Fraud in the &#36;300-billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released Wednesday.
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The U.S. Justice Department is  investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that  some health care providers bilked government programs including  Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Members of Congress expressed concern about new data indicating that Medicare pays private health plans more than it would cost to care for the same patients in the traditional program.
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My office telephone has been ringing with patients who have heard about former President Bill Clinton&#39;s surgery this month and wonder if they might need cardiac bypass themselves.
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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into whether insurers overcharged patients for out-of-network doctors.
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The US Justice Department is investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that some health care providers bilked government programs including Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care is presented in a new study.
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The US government may not be spending enough on oversight of state activities that uncover and deter fraud in the Medicaid health program, according to a congressional watchdog agency report released Thursday.
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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Providers of medical equipment in two hotbeds of Medicare fraud &#151; Los Angeles and South Florida &#151; will have to reapply to do business with the government and undergo inspections, officials said Monday.
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Many lack health insurance because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.