Wisconsin Senior Medicare Patrol

According to an article by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, the Department of Justice had a record breaking year for health care fraud prosecutions in 2011. It claims monetary recoveries from such crimes are also on the rise. There were 1,235 new cases reported, the most in the twenty years since the current reporting system began.  It’s nearly 70% more cases than the previous year.  Of all of the health care cases prosecuted, mail fraud accounted for the highest number, which includes attempted fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, up from a number 3 ranking the previous year.  A close second was health care benefits fraud.  Following behind these two categories was insurance fraud.

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