Health-care fraud’s $9.3B price tag

September 2, 2008

Health-care fraud may be one of the biggest factors driving up health-care costs, to the tune of billions of dollars, new research indicates.

Resolved health-care fraud cases alone in the previous decade involved $9.3 billion in damages paid to both federal and state government, according to researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Results of the study are slated to be published in the Sept. 2 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. (Atlanta Business Chronicle)