Coordination Fraud In Healthcare

Healthcare Fraud - is knowingly and willfully executes or attempts to execute a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program, or to obtain by false or fraudulent pretense. Therefore, in order to prove fraud the government must prove that the act performed was knowingly, willfully and intentionally.

Healthcare Abuse - is most frequently defined in terms of acts that are inconsistent with sound medical or business practice, is an unintentional practice is directly or indirectly results in an over payment to the healthcare provider.

Majority of healthcare case fraud is committed by a very small minority of dishonest healthcare providers. Unfortunately the actions of these deceitful few ultimately cause their reputation to go down the drain. Most of these trusted and respected member of our society our physicians, in which some are criminal in disguised. It is so heart-rending to find out that your trust has been violated by someone, who is to have your best interest at heart, by using and abusing your privacy and confidentially for their own gains.
The upgrading of technology give increased access to more patients medical information, which the dishonest physician can use at their advantage. Congress have implemented a nationwide program Coordination Fraud and Abuse Control Program, to coordinate federal state and local law to enforce effort against healthcare