Dr. Robert Poulin is the music for the taxpayers of $ 1.3 million fraud fraud faced by settlement. Poulin, an oncologist from Virginia Beach, would the Government programs for excess quantities of drugs and then between patients, calculate the full price for half divided doses. The doctor would be also the programs for more chemotherapy drugs when administered in account. He was sentenced to 63 months (slightly more than 5 years) in prison for his crimes.

The crime, Dr. Poulin has been found guilty is very difficult to discover. In this day and age where blamed the escalating costs go in the direction of "defensive medicine" its tough to Word edgewise about fraud. I know that participate the most doctors not in this sort of thing, but the case at hand is simply to show how easy doctors not only government programs but insurance companies can cheat. The FBI was Dr. Poulin to track, how he cheated by charging for drugs, that he does not use a government agency. If you cannot know whether applies the same control to the doctors, cheat the insurance agencies? Detection is over-billing for unadministered drugs a thing, but what is with the detection of billing for unnecessary treatments under the guise of so-called "defensive medicine"? It's no secret that doctors per service will be paid. The further examinations and tests that you take, the more they rake. Sounds more like "offensive medicine" to me: more tests to run, you will receive more money. Who will catch you? It is not, as you are billing for a test, you have not been run.

Again, we know, that it was there, we see it in this case. Most physicians not their number fudge or Overtreat, just as frivolous cases, but unfortunately it will bring most lawyers are not some there that do. I'm just saying that the system have we is now ripe for the kind of thing, Poulin took the Dr..

Fore more on this check out click the news article on the title of this entry, or read my article "the high cost of defensive medicine."

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