Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues HCS/545 University of Phoenix Claudette Grant July‚ 01‚ 2013 Fraud‚ Abuse‚ and Waste in the US Healthcare System is a major problem. As a result of this the government is spending a greater percentage of the GDP on healthcare for Americans. The primary reason for this increase in the overall cost for healthcare is related to the increase in fraud‚ waste‚ and abuse. It is estimated that the United States spends between 15 and 25
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References: Wikipedia (2007) Whistleblower. Wikipedia‚ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower Guttman‚ Reuben A.‚ Lugbill‚ Ann‚ Murphy‚ Mark The Law: An Overview False Claims Act Whistleblower Employee Protections. Whistleblowerlaws.com‚ http://whistleblowerlaws.com/protection.htm Ravishankar‚ Lilanthi Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing in Organizations. http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/whistleblowing
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Creating False Memories the article writer Elizabeth F. Loftus wrote from her experience in creating false memory some fascinating experiments and some real life situations‚ like the woman who was convinced that she was raped by her father and forced to abort her fetus ‚but when the doctors examined her they found out that she never been pregnant‚ and the other woman who thought she were abused by her family‚ and other examples. The scientific explanation was that the false memory created from
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In the article‚ “Sleep Deprivation and False Memories”‚ at the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California and Department of Psychology at Michigan State University‚ researchers Steven J. Frenda‚ Lawrence Patihis‚ Elizabeth F. Loftus‚ Holly C. Lewis‚ and Kimberly M. Fenn‚ studied and recorded the effects of sleep deprivation on memory. In the beginning of the article‚ the researchers discuss how false memories can be entirely made-up‚ or how people may take some true
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times people use terms associated with mental illness to describe themselves or others that son’t actually have a diagnosis. Because there are so many different meanings‚ the actual meaning can often be skewed. Until our society and world discard the false definitions of mental illness‚ it will be unable to move forward in understanding those with diagnosis’s better.
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employees‚ and others apply to public contractors. Under the federal False Claims Act‚ any person with knowledge of false claims or fraud against the institution may bring a lawsuit in his or her own name and in the name of the United States. As long as the information is not publicly disclosed and the government has not already sued the defendant for the fraud‚ the whistle blower‚ who is called a relator in this action‚ may bring a False Claims Act case. The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 is a United
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Assignment # 3 WorldCom Accounting Fraud By Mark A. Cowan Strayer University ACC 499- Accounting Capstone May 15‚ 2011 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the aspects of the WorldCom accounting scandal and the effects that this scandal had on the accounting world as we know it. We will discuss the corporate culture at WorldCom and how it contributed to the accounting fraud‚ how the CEO’s desire to be the #1 stock on Wall Street contributed to the fraud‚ pressures on accountants to book
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NIKE INC AND SWEET SHOP Act The el Expense Billing Controversy and False Claims Act PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC)‚ a major accounting firm‚ was engaged in unethical billing practices that generated millions of dollars in additional revenue to the company. PwC was charging its clients the full price of airline tickets and other travel expenses‚ such as hotel rooms and car rentals‚ while it was actually expending only a small percentage of the full amount billed to its clients due to applied rebates
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do anything about it. Do you think that whistle blowing laws really protect people? Why or why not? In this case I feel that the whistle blowing laws protected the men; “The complaints were brought under a whistleblower provision in the U.S. False Claims Act‚ which allows private individuals with knowledge of wrongdoing to bring suits on behalf of the government and share in the proceeds of any settlement.” I feel as though this protected them because they received large settlements in return
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everyday life. Children argue with their parents‚ siblings argue with each other‚ and politicians argue with their opponents. One of the most popular types of arguments is the either-or fallacy‚ also known as black-and-white thinking‚ a false dilemma‚ or a fallacy of false choice. In the either-or fallacy‚ one side argues that there are only two resolutions to an issue‚ despite there possibly being hundreds. Fallacy is a misleading or deceptive notion‚ so by its very definition it should be obvious
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