Phantom billing, fake prescriptions, and the high cost of medicine health care fraud and what to do about it /

Leap, Terry L., 1948-

Phantom billing, fake prescriptions, and the high cost of medicine health care fraud and what to do about it / [electronic resource] : Terry L. Leap. - Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011. - xi, 237 p. : ill. - The culture and politics of health care work . - Culture and politics of health care work. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health care fraud and its facilitating crimes -- The major health care fraud laws -- Fraud in fee-for-service and managed care : different sides of the same coin -- Fraud at major hospitals : profits at any cost, part 1 -- Fraud in the pharmaceutical, medical equipment, and supply industries : profits at any cost, part -- Fighting health care fraud and abuse.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780801460807 (electronic bk.)




Medical care--Corrupt practices--United States.
Fraud--United States.


Electronic books.

RA395.A3 / L4125 2011

364.16/3