Anna James Case Study: HealthSouth Corporation Scandal Week3 Forensic Accounting: Ethics and Legal Environment Professor Erskine Hawkins HealthSouth Corporation is a large‚ public healthcare company that operates 93 inpatient rehabilitation hospital‚ 49 outpatient rehabilitation satellites‚ six long-term acute care hospitals‚ and 25 home health agencies. According to the company websites‚ it is “one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers specializing in rehabilitation”.5 The company
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Case Study1: And the Fraud Continues A business can not work out without an account system‚ which includes internal. Internal controls are used by companies to make sure financial information is accurate and valid. Strong internal controls are signs of a financially healthy company and protect the company’s integrity. Strong internal controls can also increase a company’s profitability. There are several types of internal controls
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challenge about the way we were operating our department due to new Medicare Therapy Cap regulations (the trigger event). The initial plan failed as I did not implement the proper sequence of tools and tasks that is associated with the change implementation model‚ which has 4 steps that should flow seamlessly in the following order: redesign‚ help‚ people change‚ and system and structure (Spector‚ 2013‚ p. 41). In my particular case‚ I stared with step 2 helping‚ by attempting to drive change with
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Nakayama: What do you think are the most important lessons to be learned from the Enron scandal? Hanson: The Enron scandal is the most significant corporate collapse in the United States since the failure of many savings and loan banks during the 1980s. This scandal demonstrates the need for significant reforms in accounting and corporate governance in the United States‚ as well as for a close look at the ethical quality of the culture of business generally and of business corporations in the United
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Explore the benefits of Medicare supplement plans Insurance is a murky topic that no one likes to enter and it is for good reason too considering the amount of court cases the industry has racked up over the years as increasingly frustrated customers take companies to court over the non-payment of dues. This is a liberty that is unfortunately not in the hands of people who cannot afford a lawyer. The problem with insurance in terms of healthcare is that the whole aspect is horrifyingly expensive
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Since that time‚ salmon have been affected by a growing population and economy in the Pacific Northwest. At that time‚ Europeans had begun to occupy land along the Columbia River‚ imposing their culture on the natives of that land. By the 1800’s‚ disease brought by the European’s had cleared nearly all of the population‚ however‚ the Columbia River’s resources were being exploited to a great degree by the new settlers. Towards the turn into the 20th century‚ dams began to affect a process known as
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FY 12 Recoveries2 Total $ 113‚920.04 1 OWCP may apportion recoveries from provider fraud to various agencies. Settlements stemming health care provider fraud typically reflect as a credit on the agency end-of-year Chargeback Report. It is clear that OWCP need to establish National and district level fraud units to pursue collections and process treasury collections. The agencies should not bear the financial burden of restitution payments that OWCP is failing to pursue. Allow USPS to develop
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Now back to the welfare fraud case. I was lucky and fortunate enough to get to sit through a welfare fraud case here in Jefferson County. Where this case consisted of 30 Year old woman had gone and was collecting assistance. During the time she claimed that she had no income by all means and that she needed it. Well I did some research on the woman this woman has been charged with dealing and selling drugs inside and outside her home. She was selling narcotics inside her home and sold cocaine and
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wouldn’t have occurred to this magnitude. Donnelly was targeted in an internal investigation because she was one of three employees with the highest amounts of travel and expense reimbursements hers totaling‚ $115‚000. One of the red flags in the case was the fact that Donnelly’s supervisor had only submitted $40‚000 in travel and expense reimbursements that year. It turned out that Donnelly had been using several different schemes to accumulate such an outrageous amount of travel and expense reimbursements
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one of them‚ James McCord charged that Nixon’s administration officials were tied to the scandal; consequently‚ the Senate conducted further investigation and televised hearings where numerous sources implied that the scandal was connected to the white house. When
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