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  2. Health care fraud - Wikipedia

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    Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...

  3. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - Wikipedia

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    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; Other short titles: Kassebaum–Kennedy Act, Kennedy–Kassebaum Act: Long title: An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use ...

  4. Medicare fraud - Wikipedia

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    Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...

  5. Optum and SAS Align to Help Prevent Health Care Fraud ... - AOL

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    While the vast majority of health care spending reflects the actual costs of patient care and medical services, the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that $60 billion ...

  6. Almost 200 people charged in schemes totaling $2.7B in ... - AOL

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    Almost 200 people have been charged in a nationwide operation probing false health care claims involving approximately $2.75 billion in losses, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.

  7. Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and ...

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    OI also coordinates with OAS and OEI when audits and evaluations uncover potential fraud. Office of Counsel to the Inspector General (OCIG). OCIG is an in-house, full-service law office, providing legal advice to OIG and compliance guidance to the healthcare industry.

  8. Justice Department charges 601 people in health care fraud ...

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    The arrests came as part of what the department said was the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history and included 162 doctors and other suspects charged for their roles in prescribing ...

  9. Insurance fraud - Wikipedia

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    Health insurance fraud involves an intentional act of deceiving, concealing, or misrepresenting information that results in health care benefits being paid to an individual or group, or being wrongfully denied to a person entitled to receive benefits. Fraud can be committed either by an insured person or by a provider.