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This expose of the US health care system uncovers the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state and private officials, it reveals the practices of doctors who profit from needless surgery, overcharge for services and test excessively.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. Professional Entrepreneurs
2. Medicaid and Medicaid Fraud
3· The Law in Action: Enforcement in the Medicaid Program
4· What the Doctors Did
5· Doctors Tell Their Stories
6. Conclusions and Speculations
Notes
Index

Prescription for Profit How Doctors Defraud

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A Hardback by Gilbert Geis, Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 7/5/1993 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780520076143, 978-0520076143
    ISBN10: 0520076141
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    Insurance and actuarial studies Health systems and services Crime and criminology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This expose of the US health care system uncovers the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state and private officials, it reveals the practices of doctors who profit from needless surgery, overcharge for services and test excessively.

    Table of Contents
    Preface
    1. Professional Entrepreneurs
    2. Medicaid and Medicaid Fraud
    3· The Law in Action: Enforcement in the Medicaid Program
    4· What the Doctors Did
    5· Doctors Tell Their Stories
    6. Conclusions and Speculations
    Notes
    Index

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