Healthcare fraud involves wide-ranging illegal behaviors. It includes such activities as physicians who bill insurance companies or the government for services never provided, or that were unnecessary and, in many cases, harmful for the well-being of patients. Corporations are also involved in healthcare fraud, such as pharmaceutical companies that falsify clinical studies to get unsafe drugs approved for general population use. Healthcare fraud, similar to other white-collar crimes, has three general costs: financial, physical, and social. First, the United States is likely the largest financial victim of healthcare fraud in the world.
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