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In pursuit of Fraud free Healthcare

For some reason is best known to people who engage, fraud is very app[rent in our different healthcare institutions. Fraud happens in different procedures of the medical field. Fraud is all about fixing false information in a patient records so that the health care provider will get reimbursed for services that have been provided to the patient. These could be cases where the doctor or another healthcare provider does unnecessary tests and procedures which the patient does not need. Being aware of what you should look at when it comes to fraud is important especially with the rising cases of fraud. It doesn’t matter the kind of healthcare insurance you have, you can become a victim of fraud.

Its these cases of fraud that drive the cost of healthcare up denying some people the cover. It has come to a point that people have to rise against healthcare fraud because luckily there is something that people can do. Healthcare fraud goes beyond patents and healthcare provider interaction, physicians signatures could be falsified especially in cases where they are required for reimbursement to be successful. It is also wrong for drugs to be billed and if they have not been approved for the patient. An insurance cover will have listed the services that it covers but some uncovered services could be renamed as billable which is wrong. If a procedure is billed as a whole, dishonest health care providers could start billing it step by step to get reimbursed more.

The most common would be services being overbilled such that the insurance gets deducted more than should be the case, in other sad cases the deductibles a and co-pays that a patient is entitled to could be deliberately waivered. Monitoring on different levels needs to be exercised if the battle against fraud in healthcare is to see some progress. There needs to be mass educations on how to identify and flag fraud in health institutions. Fraud detection is being applied in different industries, it is time it was also made to work in the healthcare arena.

With automation you save yourself a lot of fraudulent cases, the key here is to limit human interaction especially when dealing with payment. Proper auditing also needs to be done from time to time just to check and see that everything is in order. Anyone seeking services in a healthcare facility needs to know that they can make a report if they fall victim to cases of fraud. There area avenues that have been set up for this. Healthcare fraud brings losses to patients and insurance companies. All that is needed from the patient is a little vigilance and a lot of fraud will be dealt with, it’s all about making the dishonest healthcare providers respect the system in place.