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Article: GWU report calls Health insurance fraud system-wide.(Health Care Headlines)(george washington university)(Brief article)
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- PT: Magazine of Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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A report from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy challenges the notion that fraud is a problem only in public health insurance markets and finds that fraud is a system-wide problem, according to a June 29 GWU news release.
The report, "Health Insurance Fraud: An Overview," says that some of the most striking examples of fraud are committed directly by the private insurance industry itself. In 2007, when the United States spent nearly $2.3 trillion on health care and public and private insurers processed more than 4 billion health insurance claims, fraud was estimated to reach as much as 10% of ...