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Provisions in the Affordable Care Act make it one of the toughest anti-fraud laws in history. The results? Another record setting year.
Feds recover $4.1B in health care fraud in 2011
Federal authorities say they recovered $4.1 billion in health care fraud judgments last year, a record high which officials on Monday credited to new tools for cracking down on deceitful Medicare claims.
The recovered funds are up roughly 50 percent from 2009. Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were expected to make the announcement at a news conference Tuesday.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
Feds recover $4.1B in health care fraud in 2011
Federal authorities say they recovered $4.1 billion in health care fraud judgments last year, a record high which officials on Monday credited to new tools for cracking down on deceitful Medicare claims.
The recovered funds are up roughly 50 percent from 2009. Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were expected to make the announcement at a news conference Tuesday.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke