Health-Care Fraud Cases Filed by U.S. Rose 69%, Researchers Say
December 19, 2011, 12:13 AM ESTBy Seth Stern
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. health-care fraud prosecutions reached a high last fiscal year, rising 69 percent from the year earlier, according to a nonprofit research group’s analysis.
The U.S. reported 1,235 new health-care fraud prosecutions in the year ending Sept. 30, the largest number reported since separate tracking of the offense began 20 years ago, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. There were 731 new cases the year before.
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