04/19/2019
According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, “The financial losses due to health care fraud are in the tens of billions of dollars each year.” One of the most significant categories of healthcare fraud relates to billing, either when a patient exaggerates their injury or illness to an insurance carrier, or when a physician overcharges for services or pharmaceuticals. So-called “phantom billing” refers to outright deception: billing carriers like Medicare to pay for services never rendered.