FRAUDULENT SCHEMES Dead Patients, Fictitious Evaluations

The insurance company Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin reported that there are as many types of health insurance fraud as �the criminal mind can invent. � 31 [Emphasis added]

The following is a random sample of the range of fraud committed by psychiatrists and psychologists:

Creating fictitious psychiatric evaluations to exhaust the patient�s insurance.

Billing insurers for therapy provided to dead people.

�False claims��billing for services never rendered or delivered.

Billing the insurance company for patient cooking classes, bingo games and music listening.

Billing for children aged between 3 and 5 for treatment of marijuana use.

Charging for baptisms in the psychiatric hospital swimming pool that were called �recreational therapy.�

Billing patient �wake-up� calls as therapy visits.

Billing insurance companies for sex with patients.

Billing for theater tickets and trips overseas.

Spending government welfare funds on social events for employees.

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