FRAUD AND ABUSE
1. How does fraud and abuse negatively impact or further burden our healthcare system?
2. It’s difficult to comprehend numbers as high as $300+ billion. Creatively describe that number by example or comparison. It’s hard to understand numbers like $300 billion or more. Use an example or a comparison to describe that number in a creative way.
3. Provide a link to a recent example of health care fraud in the news and describe the fraudulent activity and the outcome (indictment or punishment) to the provider. CHOOSE ONE FROM THE STATE OF GEORGIA
4. Why is the False Claims Act so often used to fight healthcare fraud and abuse?
