Proportional Act Of Deception: Buchbinder And Shank

Buchbinder and Shanks define fraud as an "intentional act of deception"(2017). Intentionally upcoding or undercoding and filing false claims are examples of fraud (Washlick, 2014). A physician commited fraud because he signed blank prescriptions and certificates for medical necessity without even seeing the patient ( Rudman et al., 2009). The outcome of this particular example was an order to pay 727 thousand dollars and a sentence of twenty four years in prison (Rudman et al., 2009). The physician knowingly committed these acts and proof of this lead to criminal fraud charges. Fraud and abuse are similar, but they are not the same thing. The word "intentional" is the key difference because abuse is often the term used whenever