Medical record hacking
An alternative way that scammers and organized gangs commit crime and abuse in medical care is to hack into medical records that are stored digitally. From this they have a amplitude of info such as social security numbers and hospital insurance data, of which they can use for other means. This in plain terms is a multibillion dollar industry and as a consequence this makes the government the single largest victim of health fraud.
Why If the Public be Anxious?
So the administration is losing out many billions of dollars a year on health care crime and abuse... How can this affect you directly? Firstly let us take a look at the costs concerned. We have already mentioned that it costs the government somewhere between $60 and $100 billion bucks every year and to fund this loss; they have to increase medicare premiums.
You may have recently found 2 cents has been added to the cost of your prescription, which is an effort to regain some of the money that they're haemorrhaging. On top of this, you may very well realize that you have been fraudulently billed for therapy that you haven't had. The possibilities are that it is going to be sorted out, however when you take into consideration the hours of time that you could lose trying to solve the issue, then time equals money.
Ultimately and rather more worryingly, meddling with patients medical records can be deadly especially if one person's records are entered into another patient's. This may lead to a misdiagnosis, or worse treatment that's either not mandatory or incorrect.
President Obama has decreed to come down hard on anybody who is seen to be committing health care fraud and is trying hard to get all records digitized. At present there are still a majority of records that exist on paper and it is this transition from paper to online records that might see an increase in the amount of incidents of crime. President Obama has brazenly set a five year cut off point so as to get all medical records digitized and to significantly decrease crime and abuse in medicare. If this is truly going to occur; only the passing of time will tell. That's why consulting to a whistleblower lawyer is advised as well.
An alternative way that scammers and organized gangs commit crime and abuse in medical care is to hack into medical records that are stored digitally. From this they have a amplitude of info such as social security numbers and hospital insurance data, of which they can use for other means. This in plain terms is a multibillion dollar industry and as a consequence this makes the government the single largest victim of health fraud.
Why If the Public be Anxious?
So the administration is losing out many billions of dollars a year on health care crime and abuse... How can this affect you directly? Firstly let us take a look at the costs concerned. We have already mentioned that it costs the government somewhere between $60 and $100 billion bucks every year and to fund this loss; they have to increase medicare premiums.
You may have recently found 2 cents has been added to the cost of your prescription, which is an effort to regain some of the money that they're haemorrhaging. On top of this, you may very well realize that you have been fraudulently billed for therapy that you haven't had. The possibilities are that it is going to be sorted out, however when you take into consideration the hours of time that you could lose trying to solve the issue, then time equals money.
Ultimately and rather more worryingly, meddling with patients medical records can be deadly especially if one person's records are entered into another patient's. This may lead to a misdiagnosis, or worse treatment that's either not mandatory or incorrect.
President Obama has decreed to come down hard on anybody who is seen to be committing health care fraud and is trying hard to get all records digitized. At present there are still a majority of records that exist on paper and it is this transition from paper to online records that might see an increase in the amount of incidents of crime. President Obama has brazenly set a five year cut off point so as to get all medical records digitized and to significantly decrease crime and abuse in medicare. If this is truly going to occur; only the passing of time will tell. That's why consulting to a whistleblower lawyer is advised as well.
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