title: Health care fraud: guilty until proven innocent.
abstract: During the summer of 1994, the special prosecutor for health care fraud of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Washington, DC, paid a visit to each of the US Attorney's offices throughout major metropolitan cities in America. Representatives of the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association in Chicago were invited by the DOJ to meet with the special prosecutor and his assistant to discuss the implications of the DOJ's recent reassignment of health care fraud from its number 11 to its number two priority, second only to violent crime.
authors.affiliation: American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Steiner
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D000574:American Medical Association; D019985:Benchmarking; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006077:Government Agencies; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States