title: Combating employee theft in the healthcare industry.
abstract: The healthcare industry is especially susceptible to internal fraud and employee theft, the author's research has found. He presents details of 14 costly healthcare embezzlements that took place in three months and gives insight into schemes employed on the most common types of embezzlement. He also describes proactive steps which can be taken to prevent, detect and respond to this phenomenon as well as providing a primer on conducting an internal theft investigation.
authors.affiliation: Marquet International, Ltd., Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Marquet
mesh_terms: D019981:Health Care Sector; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D013800:Theft / Q000517:prevention & control*