Prescription for Profit

Author: Paul Jesilow
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520076141
Category: Medical

Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid

In this explosive exposA of our health care system, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Download Prescription for Profit medical books for free.
Pontell, and Gilbert Geis uncover the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state, and private officials and extensive investigation of case files, they tell the stories of doctors who profit from abortions on women who aren't pregnant, of needless surgery, overcharging for services, and excessive testing.
How can doctors, recipients of a sacred trust and sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, violate Medicaid so egregiously? The authors trace patterns of abuse to the program's inauguration in the mid 1960s, when government authorities, not individual patients, were entrusted with responsibility for payments. Determining fees and regu Get Prescription for Profit our bestseller medical books.

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